The real risk of slowing frontier AI isn't safety — it's regulatory capture
VraserX · x · 2026-09-14
Commentator VraserX argues his biggest concern with the push to slow frontier AI isn't safety but regulatory capture: if big labs slow public releases while continuing internal research, they don't actually slow AI — they just widen the gap between what they have and what everyone else can access.
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