Being declared a threat to national security can have a silver lining.
After the Pentagon blacklisted artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic last week in a dispute over how its Claude chatbot could be used in war, an American public largely unaware of the company raced to download its app, paid for Claude subscriptions and praised Anthropic in online reviews and posts. Many technology workers, including at competing AI firms, took Anthropic’s side in its clash with the Defense Department.