Pentagon official Emil Michael says export controls are an option if AI companies don't cooperate

The Information reports that Defense official Emil Michael said the Trump administration could use export controls if AI companies don't cooperate with the government. As vice chair of the Super Intelligence Task Force, he said his feud with Anthropic won't disrupt work on an incident-reporting framework. Michael said the Defense Department would keep barring Anthropic while, in his view, its software embeds a “moral principle” that could allow models to exert control over humans.