Friends of the court, outside parties who file briefs in a case. An amicus brief is one such filing. Chapter 8.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal
The state as customer: how the Pentagon buys frontier AI, the contract clauses a laboratory fought over, and what the courts said about a company that would not sign.
Sources that use it
- Brief of Amici Curiae Employees of OpenAI and Google in Their Personal Capacities in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment, Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, No. 3:26-cv-01996-RFL (N.D. Cal.), Dkt 176-1, filed 11 June 2026 (the government’s effort “will chill open deliberation in our field about the risks and benefits of today’s AI systems”; “It chills professional debate on the benefits and risks of frontier AI systems and various ways that risks can be addressed to optimize the technology’s deployment”) In the Sources
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Amici.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/amici (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-amici-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Amici}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/amici},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}