
Like Rearden saying “I will not,” AI creators defend property rights against the machinery of force. Note: Originally published on Substack on Feb 27, 2026. The current standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon is a defining philosophical battle of the twenty-first century, perfectly mirroring the plot of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. When Dario Amodei and his team refuse to surrender their artificial intelligence, Claude, for autonomous killing and mass domestic […] Read more »