Debate: Would Publicly Slowing Down AI Progress Violate Antitrust Laws?
mobav0 · x · 2026-08-03
The author initiates a legal and ethical discussion regarding potential coordinated actions among frontier AI companies. They argue that while colluding behind closed doors should undoubtedly be illegal, deciding publicly and industry-wide to slow down AI progress at the frontier doesn't seem to violate the spirit of antitrust laws.
They further question whether such coordinated action would genuinely harm consumers, especially if there are plausible reasons to believe that slowing down frontier development could prevent probable dangerous scenarios on the horizon, thus potentially being legally and morally justifiable.
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