In the past week an extraordinary fight over artificial intelligence has broken out. The Trump administration’s row with Anthropic, one of America’s leading AI labs, over the Pentagon’s access to its models will be a test of who controls the world’s most potent technology. Its outcome will shape everything from America’s national security to the development of ai. It could also make an AI-enabled disaster more likely.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “AI danger gets real ”
From the March 7th 2026 edition
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