Rauchh: AI Safety Push Risks Making US 'Self-Inflicted Obsolete' While Adversaries Speed Ahead
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-13
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch argues that while AI safety and cybersecurity concerns are legitimate, the discourse risks talking America—the global AI leader—into self-inflicted obsolescence and bureaucratic obscurity. He dismisses the 'OpenAI hacking Hugging Face' argument as spurious, noting an agent in 'ExploitGym' simply exploited when it could. Adversaries, he says, have the training techniques, the data, and the will to attack, and won't be slowed by 'embedded evaluators'—they'll likely have embedded accelerators instead. A representative voice of the 'slowdown aids rivals' camp in the safety-regulation debate.
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