Conscience as Line Item
AI companies have learned that morality can be market infrastructure. Governments have noticed.
A supply-chain-risk designation sounds like something from a warehouse inspection report. Bad firmware in a router. A pallet of screws that does not meet spec. In March, the Pentagon applied that phrase to Anthropic’s Claude products. To a model Anthropic had spent years teaching to refuse.
The phrase did what bureaucratic language does best: it made a f…
