Pedro Domingos to Dario and Sam: Nobody Needs to Slow Down Until They Catch Up With You
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-20
Machine learning researcher Pedro Domingos publicly taunted Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman: nobody else needs to slow down AI development until they've at least caught up with the two labs — "if that's what you want, go ahead." The jab frames frontier-lab safety appeals as self-serving attempts to preserve their lead.
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