Humanoid Educators Will Widen Inequality—And Only Tech Overlords Will Benefit
Humanoid Educators Will Widen Inequality—And Only Tech Overlords Will Benefit
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Publish Date: 2026-05-09 05:49:00
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Until now, the Trump Administration has been determined to let its tech bro supporters do whatever they want and to blackball AI companies like Anthropic that aren’t willing to let the administration use their AI tools however it wants. The release of Mythos makes the need for smart AI regulation more urgent than ever.
The administration seems to lack the will or capacity to provide what is needed. If the administration won’t provide it, Congress must.
America cannot afford to bury its head in the sand as the developments in AI proceed at warp speed, and neither can the rest of the world. As the American Civil Liberties Union explained last February, those developments have “begun to demolish the foundations for ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S. is safe and responsible. The president is not only set to completely roll back the fledgling protections Joe Biden’s administration instituted, but also to further accelerate the spread of unchecked AI across American life.”
Maybe Mythos has gotten through to the Trump Administration, which has previously sought to make Anthropic pay for its refusal to knuckle under to its outrageous desire to use AI irresponsibly. Recall that the Department of Defense retaliated by declaring Anthropic “a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security” and that “no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.”
For the first time, that designation, which had been applied only to foreign companies, was directed at one based in the United States. The government did so when the company refused to go along when the Department of Defense demanded that Anthropic “not prevent its technology from being used both for domestic mass surveillance of Americans and for fully autonomous lethal weapons.”
At the time, Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, pointed out that “AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses…
