File "using the defense production act to force a company to create an AI that spies on American citizens" into the category of things that the soft Trump voters in the Rogan wing could lose their mind over.
Update on the meeting; according to Axios Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Dario Amodei until Friday night to give the military unfettered access to Claude or face the consequences, which may even include invoking the Defense Production Act to force the training of a WarClaude
Data centers are the early innings here, imo.
When the job loss stuff boils over, the data centers will look like nothing.
Giving people no agency over a thing that may upend their lives is a recipe for backlash for tech, media, government or anyone who works in them.
"It's coming whether you like it or not" is near-universally (and probably correctly) accepted within Silicon Valley, but is not something people outside the bubble are going to be easily persuaded of at all.