We spoke with senior Defense official Emil Michael on Friday, who told us that the Trump administration has a range of options, including export controls, if AI companies do not cooperate with the government. He also told us: - His public feud with Anthropic will not get in the way of his new duties as Super Intelligence Task Force vice chair, where he is tasked with working with AI companies to develop an incident reporting framework ("If that means I’m talking to someone who’s suing me, well then I’m talking to them") - The Defense Department will continue to bar Anthropic as long as it has a "moral principle" embedded in its software that allows its models to exert control over humans - Frontier labs are acting like "drunk drivers" who demand someone else pull them over when they call for stricter government regulation - The Office of Strategic Capital is exploring further investment into microelectronics and drone part companies - He's worried about Chinese open-source dominance and foreign employees with split loyalities but doesn't think the answer is more government control - He hasn't seen any reports on whether AI-enabled software failures from Palantir contributed to a U.S. missile strike on Iran in February that killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children ("I’m not as online as I used to be.") W/ @amir. You can read the full interview (and find a link to the video) here: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/pentagons-emil-michael-vows-export-controls-ai-labs-cooperate-government