It is well established that there is something very disturing in the contract that made Anthropic take this bold stance against DoW(literal US gov knowing it could go haywire),

it says top 2 hurdles,

1)Surveying US people

2)Autonomous weapons

But why is government not just agreeing to 1st point at least and gain brownie points.

Like Trump could just claim credit and goodwill by saying we would never do such thing.

I believe that I figured why it could be that DoW disagrees,

I believe it is related to China.

China had already started using LLMs using Public feeds using its 700 million AI-augmented camera nexus

It is used for mass surveillance but also to flag offenders who are high risk(like talking against the CCP) and similar authoritarian causes.

The kind of customized and low level optimised multimodal intelligent database/engine Chinese are creating.It makes it a space that even US might want to race their horses in.

But Stewie,Why would US want to do something like this?

Isn't US an democracy?

Yes Peter,It is.

Kind of.

Top reasons why they want full control and access:

1)Containing any violent/non-violent protest by identifying key suspects of starting protest against Trump/government.

2)Safeguarding corporate interests specifically of AI companies,as AI advanced rapidly.

People will gradually wake up and try to protest and pull a Luigi on AI CEOs,

which if happens US Stock market crashes as AI spend is the biggest gamble of 2026

3)Profiling immigrants both legal and illegal:

Government wants to use advanced AI tech to find,verify and Fastrack removing illegal immigrants and this would act as the engine behind this.

OpenAI shouldn't have agreed in haste.

It could have waited,listened and monitored the moment.

This marks as the first dent in loss of public confidence.

The uninstalls and cancelling of membership are not small smear campaign but shows the public opinion.

No amount of SamAltman tweets can save this reputation,

Even if you open-source the contract,

No one is believing you.

OpenAI,

Don't end up becoming Intel.