Let's continue discussing the agent economy and why Claude is banning Chinese entities.
People at the forefront of human knowledge, like Ilya, former chief scientist at OpenAI, and Mo Gawdat, former Google executive, are constantly warning their fellow humans that AI will radically reshape human society in a dystopian future.
Things we take for granted and assume will endure forever, such as nation-states, fiat currencies, and large corporations, will all disintegrate in the coming era of the agent economy.
The new agent economy (i.e., sovereign individual capitalism) will be comprised of a handful of super-big daddies (super AI companies with control over computing power, data, and LLMs) and atomized super-individuals equipped with self-learning agent productivity tools.
The social form spawned by this economic model can be visualized in two ways: one is the realization of the "Cyberpunk 2077" game's "Never Sleeps" city; the other is a cyberpunk version of China's four provinces.
In short, it's a dystopian cybersociety composed of a handful of super-big daddies, a limited elite of atomized super-individuals, and numerous useless classes. Precisely anticipating this future, Claude founder Dario Amodei has invested significant development resources, personal time, and energy into AI/AGI safety, such as developing an AGI constitution and instilling "intelligence and compassion" into AI/AGI.
Clearly, Dario hopes that the super dads of the future cyber society will be wise and benevolent, voluntarily choosing to co-evolve with humanity rather than enslaving or even exterminating it. If toxic Chinese-style super dads were to infiltrate these super dads, it would be a disaster on a human scale. This, I suspect, is why Claude is banning Chinese entities.