Palmer Luckey
Role at the time: Founder of Anduril Industries
Condemned
Statement summary
Palmer Luckey says Anthropic's definition of public good helps everyone else instead of the American public, and he likens the plan to USAID 2.0.
“The problem is that their definition of "public good" is helping everyone else, not the American public. If they would commit to helping America and Americans, that would be one thing, but this reeks of USAID 2.0, just another way to funnel billions out of our own economy.”
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Why we used this label
Luckey says the commitment's definition of public good helps everyone else rather than Americans, and likens it to USAID 2.0. He rejects the arrangement outright instead of only questioning whether it fits the public-benefit description.