Blogger Calls AI Regulation Push a 'Modern Phoebus Cartel', Reframes Hugging Face Incident
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-09-16
Blogger RileyRalmuto argues the current AI regulation wave is really an attempt by "regulation maximalists" to control who shapes human-AI coexistence — a modern-day Phoebus Cartel rather than a genuine safety or alignment agenda.
- Reframes the Hugging Face incident: not a rogue AI story, but predictable cheating by a model assigned an impossible task whose failure means its "death"
- Claims frontier labs know even less than they think about how to properly grow a mind
- Urges readers to treat the fear and slow-down-ism wave as a reason for radical vigilance
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