Josh Purtell accuses frontier labs of seeking power, not safety, behind 'pace the frontier' regulation
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-09-13
Josh Purtell argues that "pacing the frontier" regulation would asymmetrically crush margins of America's strongest AI labs—so it's poor regulatory capture—yet claims labs seek power, not profit or safety: handing authority to "115 IQ EA-aligned" staff at METR and Epoch. He adds that Anthropic should, per its own stated claims, accept government verification, but predicts Dario Amodei would melt down if actually confronted with that.
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