Kokotajlo: a $100M fine equals one day's AI-lab revenue—soon just an hour
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-09-25
Responding to a call for $100M fines against AI companies (punishing the driver, not the car), Daniel Kokotajlo does the math: $100M is about one day's revenue for these companies, roughly six hours' worth next year, and perhaps an hour's worth two years out—implying fines at that scale are trivially small.
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