Amodei's coordinated AI slowdown plan flagged as a cartel; White House adviser calls it regulatory capture
mixtapedmonk · reddit · 2026-09-21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed that AI labs collectively slow down frontier development — admitting in his own writing that such coordination is structurally a cartel — while asking the government for a narrow antitrust waiver to do it anyway. A White House adviser called it regulatory capture two days later. The same week, two Anthropic employees resigned, warning the industry was gambling with people's lives. The author argues the plan itself is more interesting than the reactions.
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