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title: "Amici: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/amici
description: "Amici: Friends of the court, outside parties who file briefs in a case. An amicus brief is one such filing. Chapter 8."
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# Amici

What does “Amici” mean?

AmiciFriends 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-8)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/filing#anthropic-v-dow-dkt176-1)

## Related terms

- [AISI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/aisi)
- [Arsenal behind every arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/arsenal-behind-every-arsenal)
- [CHIPS Act](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/chips-act)
- [Defense Production Act](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/defense-production-act)
- [Fable](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/fable)
- [Jailbreak](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/jailbreak)
- [Mission layer](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/mission-layer)
- [Mythos](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/mythos)
- [Red line](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/red-line)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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