Cohere Founder Criticizes AI Safety "Cartel" Proposals: Full Access or Shutdown, China Exempt

ns123abc · x · 2026-09-13

A tweet by researcher Aidan Gomez criticizing parts of current frontier AI safety proposals is making the rounds: he argues they amount to a "cartel" — demanding employee-level access to a company's entire operation, allowing shutdown of anyone deemed 'unsafe', while China won't comply but everyone else must or lose chip access.

The reposting author agrees with the assessment, highlighting ongoing divides over frontier AI oversight and safety-access mechanisms.

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