As artificial intelligence grows more powerful and ubiquitous, some observers - including at the Brookings Institution- note that whoever wins the AI race will find themselves asserting global dominance until 2100.

While the U.S. has been dominant since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China is rapidly closing the gap. Since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, Beijing has made impressive strides economically, militarily, and diplomatically. Even the disparity in sports has narrowed, where we’re now head-to-head at each Summer Olympics.

Some tech sector experts like Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, have claimed it has caught up with the United States. Politico cites a new global poll from a U.K. company, which claims that 11 of 15 countries now see China ahead of America in AI.

Given China’s heavily state-controlled system and the United States’ nearly 250-year legacy of democracy, one might expect domestic companies to act in ways that uphold our free-market republic.

Well, they would be wrong.

One of America’s top AI companies, San Francisco-based Anthropic, is a poignant illustration of this.

Unlike Chinese companies, which vigorously support their government in Beijing to aid national advancement, our media headlines in the U.S. show Anthropic fighting our government, with multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration to prove it.

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