Ilya Sutskever opposes frontier AI slowdowns with a dark joke: 'Buy American, Die American'
ilyasu · x · 2026-09-13
OpenAI co-founder and SSI founder Ilya Sutskever said he does not support pacing frontier models, adding a dark-humor punchline:
> "If I am going to die at the hands of killer AI, I want it to be American, not Chinese. Buy American, Die American."
The post is a satirical jab at the ongoing debate over US–China AI competition and frontier model slowdown policies, and has been widely circulated in the AI community.
Related event: Ilya Sutskever sparks debate over pacing frontier models(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Security researcher: vibe coding will force software to consolidate around mature products — jd_pressman · 2026-10-31
- AI pushes circuit lower bound from 3.1n to 3.5n as UCLA-backed challenge aims at P vs NP — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-10-31
- What is work for? Cross-national survey of 8,234 adults on meaning in the AI age — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-10-31
- Which universities win top students may hinge on healthy AI-use boundaries, argues researcher — brianryhuang · 2026-10-31
- Researchers debate whether more inference compute can substitute for training compute — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-31
- Five agents can agree because they made the same mistake, krishnan warns with satire — krishnan · 2026-10-31