Safety researcher to US AI chief: companies themselves warn unregulated AI races create unsafe practices

davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-24

Replying to US AI official mkratsios47, AI safety researcher David Manheim makes a pointed argument:

Companies can plausibly deploy today's existing AI systems responsibly.
But the same companies are telling everyone that leaving future development unregulated creates competitive races to unsafe practices, undermining security.
His conclusion: regulators should listen to what companies themselves are saying.

The post directly highlights the tension between companies claiming frontier AI can't be responsibly deployed and lobbying against regulation.

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