Comment by ricardobeat

One alternative would be to call the government's bluff: if they truly are as indispensable as they claim then they can leverage that advantage into a deal.

But at a more general level, I'd say that unethical actions do not suddenly become ethical when one's business is at risk. If Anthropic considers that using their technology for X is unethical and then decide that their money and power is worth more than the lives of the foreigners that will be affected by doing X then good for them, but they shouldn't then make a grandstand about how hard they fought to ensure that only foreigners get their necks under the boots.

> What is their other possible move here, considering the government is threatening to destroy their business entirely?

You must not be American, then. We all know that these corporate favoring contract terms are managed through campaign contributions; savvy?

Anthropic must have high school interns as govt liaisons, and not very bright ones