Dario, Elon and Sam all back slower AI development, sparking monopoly debate

TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-13

A widely shared observation notes that Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman — the three most prominent public faces of frontier AI — have each, in some form, endorsed slower or more deliberate capability development. A critical reply pushes back: the three are acting as one monopoly over AI, wrapping a power to deny everyone else's development in soft language, backed ultimately by force. The real question, it argues, is who gets to decide the pace.

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