{"id":52034,"date":"2026-03-08T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=52034"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:48:14","slug":"ai-ceos-worry-the-government-will-nationalize-aiutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/08\/ai-ceos-worry-the-government-will-nationalize-aiutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"AI CEOs Worry the Government Will Nationalize AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-180925410\">\n<div id=\"text-180925410\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tPalantir&#8217;s CEO was blunt.  &#8220;If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone&#8217;s white-collar job&#8230; and you&#8217;re going to screw the military \u2014 if you don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to lead to the nationalization of our technology, you&#8217;re retarded&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And OpenAI&#8217;s Sam Altman is thinking about the same thing, writes long-time Slashdot reader destinyland:<\/p>\n<p> <i> &#8220;It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project,&#8221; Sam Altman publicly mused last week&#8230;  Altman speculated on the possibility of the government &#8220;nationalizing&#8221; private AI companies into a public project, admitting more than once he&#8217;s wondered what would happen next. &#8220;I obviously don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Altman said \u2014 but he added that &#8220;I have thought about it, of course&#8221; Altman&#8217;s speculation hedged that &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Could powerful AI tools one day slip from the hands of private companies to be controlled by the U.S. government? <em>Fortune<\/em> magazine&#8217;s AI editor points out that &#8220;many other breakthroughs with big strategic implications \u2014 from the Manhattan Project to the space race to early efforts to develop AI \u2014 were government-funded and largely government-directed.&#8221; And <em>Fortune<\/em> added that last week the Defense Department threatened Anthropic with the Defense Production Act, which allows the president to designate &#8220;critical and strategic&#8221; goods for which businesses must accept the government&#8217;s contracts. <em>Fortune<\/em> speculates this would&#8217;ve been &#8220;a sort of soft nationalization of Anthropic&#8217;s production pipeline&#8221;. Altman acknowledged Saturday that he&#8217;d felt the threat of attempted nationalization &#8220;behind a lot of the questions&#8221; he&#8217;d received when answering questions on X.com.  <\/p>\n<p>How exactly will this AI build-out be handled \u2014 and how should AI companies be working with the government?   In a sprawling ask-me-anything session on X that included other members of OpenAI leadership, one Missouri-based developer even broached an AGI-government scenario directly with OpenAI&#8217;s Head of National Security Partnerships, Katherine Mulligan. If OpenAI built an AGI \u2014 something that even passed its own Turing test for AGI \u2014 would that be a case where its government contracts <em>compelled<\/em> them to grant access to the Defense Department?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; Mulligan answered. At our current moment in time, &#8220;We control which models we deploy&#8221; <br \/>The article notes 100 OpenAI employees joined with 856 Google employees in an online letter titled &#8220;We Will Not Be Divided&#8221; urging their bosses to refuse their models&#8217; use in domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing without human oversight. <\/p>\n<p>But Adafruit&#8217;s managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone ) sees analogies to America&#8217;s atomic bomb-building Manhattan Project, and &#8220;what happened when the scientists who built the thing tried to set conditions on how the thing would be used.&#8221;   (The government pressured them to back down, which he compares to the Pentagon&#8217;s designating Anthropic a &#8220;supply chain risk&#8221; before offering OpenAI a contract &#8220;with the same red lines, just worded differently&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei frequently recommends the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1986 book  <em>The Making of the Atomic Bomb<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#CEOs #Worry #Government #Nationalize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palantir&#8217;s CEO was blunt. &#8220;If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone&#8217;s white-collar job&#8230; and you&#8217;re going&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52035,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034\/revisions\/52035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}