The institutional shift is that restraint has been moved out of ethics language and into bargaining language. Anthropic’s dispute with the Department of Defense is described as a fight over whether frontier tools can exclude mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons while the Pentagon keeps “all lawful uses” available through all lawful uses on the table. That framing rewards the agency that can define legality most broadly and punishes the vendor that treats refusal as part of product design. Once safety becomes a contract term, the winning side is the…