[JacobArthurs]

It's worth separating "refusing a contract" from "resisting oversight" though. Anthropic declining DoD terms is still just a procurement decision, not a power grab, even if the blowback (getting labeled a supply chain risk) makes it feel weightier. The scary version of your concern is whether regulatory frameworks can keep pace with $10T companies, and on that I think you're right that the window is closing faster than governments realize.

[shoman3003]

even if they were able to keep pace, with time and with more powerful corporations lobbying, the government will not be the same. I really hate writing this, but by all accounts, it seems the future will include million not billions of sapiens.