Anthropic’s U.S. AI Action Plan

Anthropic is an AI leader, along with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Tesla/xAI, and Perplexity. It advocates:

As our CEO Dario Amodei writes in ‘Machines of Loving Grace’, we expect powerful AI systems will emerge in late 2026 or early 2027. Powerful AI systems will have the following properties:

• Intellectual capabilities matching or exceeding that of Nobel Prize winners across most disciplines—including biology, computer science, mathematics, and engineering.
• The ability to navigate all interfaces available to a human doing digital work today, including the ability to process and generate text, audio, and video, the ability to autonomously control technology instruments like mice and keyboards, and the ability to access and browse the internet.
• The ability to autonomously reason through complex tasks over extended periods—hours, days, or even weeks—seeking clarification and feedback when needed, much like a highly capable employee would.
• The ability to interface with the physical world; controlling laboratory equipment, robotic systems, and manufacturing tools through digital connections.

... We believe the United States must take decisive action to maintain technological leadership.

This assumes that AI research continues to progress at its current pace. That is plausible, as AI has been progressing at a steady pace for about 15 years.