DPA to Compel AI Militarization

Governments may use industrial‑scale emergency authorities (like the U.S. Defense Production Act) to force frontier AI companies to produce models the military can use for any lawful purpose, even if firms had contractually restricted certain uses. That dynamic turns safety or ethics guarantees into bargaining chips that can invite legal coercion, supply‑chain blacklisting, or forced nationalization of AI capabilities. — If adopted more broadly, this approach would remake AI governance: safety concessions could be reversed by state power, chilling private safety commitments and concentrating control of frontier systems in the state.