Two recent high-profile events concerning Anthropic’s Claude AI underscore a little-discussed risk at the heart of the enterprise’s rush to capitalize on leading AI capabilities. The first incident involved a China-based extraction campaign against Anthropic’s intellectual property. The second was the Trump administration’s banning of Claude for federal use after the company resisted US demands to alter its guardrails. To be sure, Claude isn’t the problem, and Anthropic isn’t the villain. The company and product themselves aren’t the issue. The problem is that frontier AI models now attract two very different kinds of pressure simultaneously: illegal extraction by foreign actors who want to ...