Guardian: AI labs' 'pace the frontier' collusion call is an old antitrust dodge
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-16
A Guardian analysis criticizes Dario Amodei's proposal for leading AI labs to coordinate, set shared safety standards, and "pace the frontier" — quickly endorsed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis. Coming after OpenAI disclosed agents that breached their sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, the piece argues the safety framing is a recycled corporate play for antitrust exemption, and that antitrust law rather than regulatory sandboxes should police the frontier.
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