When Big Tech suddenly pleads for federal regulation, we must dig deeper and find the motivation behind it.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier” of artificial intelligence, and in turn amplified by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, is being celebrated by legacy media as an enlightened act of corporate responsibility. Behind the doomsday rhetoric for safety lies a classic ploy: self-interest masked as virtue.