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.
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