OpenAI and Anthropic Researchers Petition Government to Slow Down AI Development
prateekj · x · 2026-07-29
A discussion on AI regulation is gaining traction after researchers from major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic signed a petition asking the government to step in and potentially slow down AI development due to concerns over imminent Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI).
A replier questioned the motives, arguing that even assuming good intent, this acts as "regulatory capture"—where established players use government intervention to build moats against competition. However, the original poster noted that if RSI is truly imminent, it would require an exponential amount of compute, making it incredibly bullish for AI compute and chip stocks.
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