"AI Cartel": blogger argues AI pacing rhetoric mirrors OPEC-style market capture
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-17
The author distinguishes coordinating AI safety from coordinating the pace of AI development—"not the same concept." Framing it as an "AI Cartel," he asks how pacing AI differs from OPEC pacing oil production, arguing market capture looks identical whether driven by greed or wrapped in public-safety language. A direct challenge to labs invoking safety to justify slowing development.
Related event: Debate rages over whether AI pace coordination is cartel behavior(3 posts)→
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