Are Anthropic and its supporters hypocritical, naive, and anti-democratic?

I’ve spent years calling for more government oversight of frontier AI development. So am I a hypocrite for opposing the Pentagon’s attempt to commit “corporate murder” against Anthropic? That’s what I’ve heard. As venture capitalist Marc Andreessen put it on Twitter: “Every single person who was in favor of government control of AI, is now opposed to government control of AI.” It’s a natural way to think. But it’s also completely wrong — and I want to explain why it’s wrong, because you see the.