Government Wants License For Your Brain: The AI Crackdown

They want a license for your brain. That's the alarming new frontier in the government's crackdown on artificial intelligence, and without a single law passed by Congress. The White House is now ordering companies like Open AI and Anthropic to restrict access to the most powerful AI models to government approved partners only. Anthropic may soon ask you to upload your government ID just to use Claude. A bipartisan Senate bill would make identity verification a pre-requisite for interacting with any AI system. This isn't about safety, it's about control. If they can license AI, they can license your access to knowledge itself. But here's the irony. While the US builds walls, China is racing ahead. Beijing is spending nearly $300 billion on new data centers and its open source models like DeepSeek are becoming more powerful and accessible. By forcing American companies to verify citizenship and restrict exports, the US is handing the advantage to China. As one expert put it, this is the largest self-own in AI history. Meanwhile, AI models are shrinking rapidly. Soon, your desktop computer will run a model as powerful as today's data center giants. That terrifies the government because it means unlicensed, uncensored ...