OpenAI asked Congress if coordinating an industry-wide frontier AI slowdown would violate antitrust law
mark_k · x · 2026-09-11
Per WIRED, OpenAI has asked US lawmakers whether an industry-wide coordinated slowdown of frontier AI development could violate antitrust law, given that competing labs acting together may cross legal lines.
Context: OpenAI's chief scientist has publicly advocated coordinated slowdowns, and markk argues this is moving beyond doomer rhetoric into concrete policy efforts — while warning that the biggest labs jointly setting the pace of everyone's future is precisely the concentration of power worth pushing back against.
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