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Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, openly admitted on CBS’s Face the Nation that he would be willing to hand control of powerful AI systems to what he called “the right combination of governments,” a line that should set off every liberty-loving American’s alarm bells. That is not technocratic prudence — it is a proposal to hand a tool that can shape minds and societies to faceless, unaccountable coalitions.
Amodei didn’t say this in isolation; he used the interview to push a three-step plan that includes slowing model rollouts, embedding third-party evaluators inside companies, and bringing governments into the room as arbiters of pace and safety. What he calls caution reads like a political power grab dressed up in safety talk: invite the state in, and the state never leaves.
Even his peers have circled the wagons — Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly signaled agreement with slowing the pace after Amodei’s essay, turning what might have been a technical debate into a coalition with enormous plutocratic and bureaucratic leverage. When billionaires and regulators begin harmonizing their demands, the winners are not the American worker or small business; the winners are centralized control and the entrenched interests that cozy up to it.
Conservative commentators on the right are rightly furious, and not without reason. As Glenn Beck put it on his program, giving the government blanket or joint control over AI is a recipe for surveillance, censorship, and the erosion of every liberty we hold dear — history shows that technological power in the hands of venal bureaucracies quickly becomes a tool of oppression. The question we should all ask is simple: who polices the policers?
The plan Amodei floats is vague by design: “joint governance” can mean anything from benign oversight to multinational gatekeepers that decide which viewpoints, goods, and people thrive online. That ambiguity creates an opening for regulatory capture, backroom deals, and a future where American values take a back seat to technocratic consensus formed far from the ballot box.
Patriotic Americans must not cede this debate to Silicon Valley elites and international technocrats. Congress should hold hearings, demand clear, public guardrails, and insist that any safety regime preserve free speech, due process, and national sovereignty rather than outsourcing those decisions to opaque global bodies and private consortiums. The choice is not between chaos and surrender; it is between vigilant self-government and handing our fate to unaccountable gatekeepers.
Hardworking Americans built this country on distrust of concentrated power and a faith in individual freedom — those principles matter now more than ever. We can support sensible, transparent safeguards without trading our liberties, and we must make clear at the ballot box and in the halls of power that giving the keys to the kingdom to the “right combination of governments” is a path to serfdom, not safety.
