Pentagon's Emil Michael threatens export controls if AI labs don't cooperate with government
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-10-19
Senior Defense official Emil Michael, vice chair of the Super Intelligence Task Force, gave a combative interview on the government's relationship with AI companies.
Key points: - If AI companies don't cooperate, the administration has a range of options, including export controls; - His public feud with Anthropic won't hinder his new role building an incident-reporting framework with AI companies ('If that means I'm talking to someone who's suing me, well then I'm talking to them'); - DoD will keep barring Anthropic as long as its models embed a 'moral principle' allowing them to exert control over humans; - He likened frontier labs calling for stricter regulation to 'drunk drivers' demanding someone else pull them over; - The Office of Strategic Capital is exploring further investment.
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