Sam Altman · Anthropic · OpenAI · Dario Amodei · China · Elon Musk · The Register
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’
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Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created.
Key facts
- If they execute these measures well, the reporter believe they would slow China’s progress enough to widen America’s lead significantly over the next 3–5 years, the window when AI becomes geopolitically most
- President Trump dismissed warnings that AI can have deleterious effects and said the USA must lead the world in AI
- It’s also easy to dismiss OAI-HF as the failure of one company, but I believe that would be a mistake,” he wrote
- Such responses may reflect the fact that vast spending on AI infrastructure is delivering GDP growth in otherwise stagnant economies
Summary
ANALYSIS The leaders of major AI labs spent the weekend agreeing on a plan to capture regulators, make more money, and avoid responsibility for their dangerous behaviour. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set the ball rolling with a post in which he professed alarm at how quickly AI is improving and suggested the attack on Hugging Face caused by rogue agents run by his rival OpenAI (OAI-HF) represented a moment that proved something needs to change at so-called “frontier” AI companies, the big US model-makers. “It’s also easy to dismiss OAI-HF as the failure of one company, but I believe that would be a mistake,” he wrote. Amodei therefore suggested “The team must slow the pace at which they improve the capabilities of AI models.