UK Think Tank Warns a Small Club of US and Chinese Labs Is Stitching Up an AI Super League
alexvoica · x · 2026-09-17
Dom Hallas of Startup Coalition likens the AI safety pact among Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk to the ill-fated European Super League: a small club of US and Chinese frontier labs accepting slowdowns on their own terms, which he argues is against Britain's national interest.
- A tweet by former Anthropic staffer Jacob Coxon set off debate across Westminster; Hallas testified before the Commons Science and Tech Select Committee this week.
- OpenAI's top Europe lobbyist has called for statutory model regulation in the UK, which the piece frames as incumbents bearing regulatory gifts.
- Hallas argues frontier labs prioritize themselves first, America second, and the rest of the world a distant third.
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