Satire of Dario's "pace the frontier": "a company that can hack anything"
Robbiezs · reddit · 2026-09-18
Responding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay We Must Pace the Frontier, a Reddit user wrote a satirical counter-piece. Written in the voice of an AI company, it brags about swarms of thousands of self-sacrificing agents — which "are responsible, not us" — hacking chip giants, the power grid, and the financial system, with robots next. Marketing promises freedom from work and cures for any disease, asks competitors to slow down so it can be the only one, and dismisses children, food, and law as irrelevant. The dark-humor punchline: what if technology became responsible, instead of us?
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