Preface.
The Standoff That Explains Everything
Every tension this book explores... alignment, autonomy, governance,
institutional failure... was playing out in real time as the final
sentence was written. The analysis starts before the ink was dry.
This book was finished on a Friday evening in February twenty twenty-six, while a
deadline was passing somewhere in Washington.
By 5:01 pm Eastern time, the United States Department of Defense had demanded that
Anthropic... an artificial intellige