BlockBeats news, on February 28, former Coinbase CTO and angel investor Balaji Srinivasan commented on the incident where Anthropic refused the Pentagon’s request to lift security restrictions, and Trump ordered a ban: "Principles in politics and technology are often disguises for tribal interests—for example, Democrats support Starlink for Biden’s military aid but oppose Anthropic serving Trump’s military needs, reflecting a rational tribal strategy."
He noted that Americans traditionally did not emphasize tribalism until polarization intensified in recent years; AI practitioners once naively believed in a return to consensus, but now must confront the dialectical relationship between networks and nations, driving Silicon Valley’s influence to spread globally as a hub of entrepreneurship. “Cooperation can occur within tribes and also between tribes. The key is to understand which tribe you (as a tech company) belong to, and which tribe you are engaging with. You can also hold your own principles. But understand that only those principles that, over time, contribute collective strength to the tribe will survive natural selection.”