What Amodei's call for an AI pause gets wrong: self-interested oversight
Gloomy_Register_2341 · reddit · 2026-09-15
Responding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent appeal for a pause on AI development, the author agrees AI companies need more breathing room to assess their inventions before release. The core critique: oversight led by AI companies themselves is self-interested governance — what's needed is external, independent oversight rather than letting frontier labs referee their own race.
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