One wonders if this might be a net positive for the world if Anthropic is forced to terminate it's non-US citizen employees.

I would hope they return to their home countries with their expertise and start or join new competing frontier labs, similar to how Taiwan's homegrown semiconductor industry arose from US companies enforcing a bamboo ceiling on their Asian engineers. Taiwan was able to repatriate their nationals and make incredible compounding leaps in the semiconductor industry, to the loss and chagrin of the US. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1127595393/taiwan-miracle-sem...