John Schulman: OpenAI and Anthropic Should Draft an AI Pacing Proposal Together
dpaleka · x · 2026-09-09
- Quoting an argument that warning shots like the Hugging Face attack make pacing agreements between US labs viable — possibly requiring costly steps like a temporary freeze on capability improvements.
- John Schulman says the first step is for OpenAI and Anthropic to stop feuding and jointly develop a pacing proposal; antitrust concerns are "fake" since the law bars certain agreements but not joint proposal drafting.
- Bringing in the US government before a concrete proposal exists would likely produce something dumb, citing the current pre-release testing program as an example.
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