Why would AI CEOs in bitter competition ask Big Government to step in?
No-Television-7862 · reddit · 2026-09-17
The author argues AI CEOs' joint calls for "safety" regulation are strategy dressed as altruism: limiting open-weight models, countering low-cost Chinese AI progress, and boxing out startups they don't yet own. They contend Western regulation that buries open research while assuming China voluntarily slows down is unilateral self-restraint, and propose narrow rules targeting concrete harms (AI-augmented attacks, surveillance, worker disruption) instead of licensing regimes only incumbents can afford.
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