Ilya Sutskever sparks backlash: 'If I die to killer AI, I want it to be American'
bennash · x · 2026-09-14
Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said he does not support pacing frontier models, adding: "If I am going to die at the hands of killer AI, I want it to be American, not Chinese. Buy American, Die American." The remark drew wide attention and mockery on X, highlighting how frontier-lab safety discourse has become entangled with geopolitics.
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