David Sacks tells Amodei and Altman to slow down voluntarily, not via regulation
mikeflache · x · 2026-09-17
In an open letter, David Sacks pushes back on Dario Amodei and Sam Altman's calls to "pace the frontier" of AI development.
- He argues OpenAI and Anthropic already hold a duopoly on frontier intelligence by market share, revenue, and capability, and claim a widening lead via recursive self-improvement
- If their unreleased models are genuinely dangerous, they should slow down voluntarily — without suspending antitrust law or forming a cartel
- He accuses the labs of using altruistic safety narratives to shield themselves from product-liability exposure (citing the "Hugging Face episode")
- Conditioning a development freeze on their preferred legal frameworks looks like regulatory capture, he warns
The letter marks the sharpest counter yet in the US debate over frontier AI slowdown.
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