Beff Jezos: leading AI labs want to freeze the field and engineer a great psyop
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos), founder of the e/acc movement, argues that leaders always want to be forever crowned kings and freeze the playing field. Now that the big labs have economically impactful AGI, they no longer want to compete fiercely to keep their lead—and will "engineer one of the greatest psyops of all time."
Quoting Ahmad Osman's warning that people pushing to pause AI are leading us back toward a "permanent underclass," Verdon frames the pause narrative as self-serving propaganda from incumbents consolidating their advantage.
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