How the American Executive Could Control AI Companies

Some of the most notable American AI policies to date have been enacted by unilateral executive branch action. Consider the Department of Defense’s spat with Anthropic, and the resulting threats from Pete Hegseth to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) against them. Or the fleeting export controls on Claude Fable/Mythos 5, manifested as a vaguely worded, threatening letter from Howard Lutnick, which might not have been legally sound but were effective anyway.The executive branch of the United...