Aidan Gomez slams AI safety 'cartel' proposals as devs argue self-regulation vs open weights
aronchick · x · 2026-09-13
Cohere co-founder Aidan Gomez mocked big-lab safety proposals as cartel logic: employee-level access to your entire operation, shutdown of anyone deemed 'unsafe', and chip bans for all but China.
David Aronchick pushed back: if labs admit they can't contain themselves and lack safeguards against misuse, fixing that is exactly the work worth doing—like Microsoft 'pacing itself' on security in the mid-2000s. He argues no government mandate is needed since liability laws and customer pressure suffice, and labs could pledge together via a voluntary industry body. His bigger concern: proprietary, unexplainable, uncontrollable non-sovereign AI can't be trusted for critical business or government uses—open weights and sovereign AI are critical.
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