As for what your country can do, it's up to you to decide, isn't it? Instead of complaining about the US, think about the alternatives. Do you trust China to be your partner? Suppose you are being objective and say no, then what do your country need to do?

You have to decide whether AI capability is critical that your country must own. What factors prevent it from happening in the first place, what need to change and whether you accept changes that may come as the results.

On the other hand, if you say that AI is just a bubble, that the huge investment pouring into it is just greed and fraud, then I suppose you are ok with the status quo.

That's not true, and I'm not sure what that even means. It's totally up to you the human to ensure AI code mergable or evolvable, or meet your quality standard in general. I certainly have had to tell Claude to use different approaches for maintainability, and the result is not different than if I do it myself.

There are more investment money than Anthropic need. They can pick and choose.

Wars are messy and have always been. Military actions are to be decided by the governments. Those who have resources are more willingly to use it, west or east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

This is remarkably sloppy for someone who codes. No facts, just opinion, claimed with confidence.

2) why do you think those who care about this don’t care about other issues?

3) this hardly makes the headlines, and wont stay there for long. It doesn’t get outsized attention

I think you need to be better at self reflection. A tech bro who read a blog post and immediately accused the author of being "a tech bro with no idea about economics and marketing", and assumed that they didn't understand the business they built a software for.

As for AI for luxury services, you didn't look hard enough. See for example discussion of what Langham Hotel Group is doing with AI. Granted, nothing earth shattering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMn0MO5HFk8

If you haven't heard of Langham, they own the 5-star Langham London and many other luxury hotels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langham_Hotel,_London

There may be other considerations as well -- licensing terms, resources, etc.

That would not happen, simply because those companies' interest will never be aligned entirely. There are at least three SOA models at the moment plus many open weight models. Anthropic vs. Pentagon is exactly what would play out.

And what is a precedence? Don't say Google, because search is well and alive.

> You know what’s truly “democratic” and without “gatekeeping”? Exactly what we had before, an internet run by collaboration filled with free resources for anyone keen enough to learn.

We have way more free resources at the moment. Name anything you'd like to learn, someone will be able to point you to a relevant resource. There are also better ways of surfacing that resource.

> This parroted argument

Most of arguments here on HN have been discussed ad nauseam, for or against AI. It's only parroted (or biased) if it's against your own beliefs.