Satirical dialogue skewers Altman and Amodei for pushing 'safety' as a cartel
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-09-13
A fictional dialogue set in a secret San Francisco room satirizes Sam Altman and Dario Amodei: a junior employee's real safety ideas (sandboxing, pausing development, restricting APIs) are dismissed, while the bosses push mandatory audits, embedded evaluators, and government-mandated limits on how fast anyone can build better models — 'so no one builds a better model than ours.' The employee calls it a cartel; the reply is to add a footnote requesting an antitrust waiver, publish it as an essay, and note that less competition also means a bigger IPO. The piece crystallizes the ongoing criticism that frontier labs' safety advocacy doubles as regulatory capture.
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