Comment by somenameforme
3 days ago
For better or for worse, 0 chance this happens for the exact same reason Elon/SpaceX is also tied to the US regardless of how goofy the government gets. If they did so, it would almost certainly directly drive criminal prosecution with various national security flavorings on top.
Every single worker and operation would need to be in countries with no extradition treaties, and even then they'd likely be limited to serving the tiny handful of nations that are willing/able to resist US pressure, so pretty much - Russia and China.
That sounds a bit totalitarian.
Only if generalized. In modern times companies that become entangled in national defense stuff reap tremendous rewards, but in exchange for that they also expose themselves to the government's ability to impose a wide array of rules and emergency actions to control them as necessary.
One practical thing this does is prevent an inversion of authority. Imagine if a major e.g. military industrial complex company told the government 'Hey China's offering us $100 billion to relocate, no strings attached. Can you beat their offer?' In modern times where companies seem to have no ethics or loyalty to anything except to pennies, this isn't even as absurd a scenario as it should be.
Claude and OpenAI screamed as loudly as they could 'ooo we're dangerous, scary scary AI, national security, dooooommmm, AGI - regulate us!' probably in an effort to try to rug pull and build an artificial moat against competition. Well congrats, it seems they have finally gotten the attention of the government. It brings to mind the tale of the Brazen Bull [1], or Reagan's 9 words.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull#Creation_of_the_br...