What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI
Opinion essay argues Dario Amodei's proposals for embedded evaluators and frontier AI coordination would require antitrust waivers and entrench a large-lab cartel.
The author critiques Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal for embedded evaluators inside AI labs, democratic coordination on safety standards and pacing, and global coordination with authoritarian governments. He argues such coordination requires loosening antitrust law, burdening startups while shielding incumbents like Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, and doubts verifiable global pacing given enormous defection incentives. The piece links lab motivations to data center subsidy pushback, competition from open-source and low-cost Chinese models, and upcoming IPO financial disclosures.
- Amodei proposes embedded evaluators, democratic frontier-lab coordination, and global pacing agreements.
- Altman and Musk publicly endorsed mutual model inspection every couple of weeks.
- Author contends coordination amounts to a cartel requiring antitrust exemptions.
- Global verification of AI pacing is judged impractical due to defection incentives.
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I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment, and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom… But like many technologies before it, AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious… We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.
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