Research Notes: The Patriot Test

How One AI Company's Refusal Became a Constitutional Crisis in Miniature

Can the U.S. government designate an American company as a threat to national security because it won’t remove safety guardrails from its AI?

Turns out the answer is yes. And it happened on a Friday afternoon in late February.

The story broke through my usual feeds on February 27, and what caught me immediately wasn’t the headline. Headlines said “Pentago…