In the described confrontation, an AI-company CEO could threaten legal and public opposition to the White House.

“to threaten here's all these orders i could make you know defense production act blah blah blah i could like do all this terrible stuff to you and basically disempower you and take control and then the ceo can be like threatened back and be like here's how we would fight it in the courts here's how we would fight it in the public you know here's here's all this you know stuff we would do and after then they both do their posturing with all their threats then they're like okay how about we have a contract that like you know instead of instead of executing on all of our threats and having all these crazy fights”