If AI labs believed the safety hype, why not just slow down on their own?
0xAllen_ · x · 2026-09-13
A post challenges AI labs' consistency: if they believed even a shred of the calls to slow down for safety, they fully control their companies and could slow or stop without government involvement — so why all the theatrics?
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