Ex-OpenAI safety lead: AI policy world overindexes on OpenAI and Anthropic
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-11-06
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI safety lead, argues the AI safety/policy world is heavily overindexing on OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither has a big sustainable lead, and an increasingly likely slowdown of the frontier could level the field further. He adds that the only scenario where focusing on those two isn't overindexing is one where one or both essentially take over the market — which some people do want, but in most normalish scenarios other companies matter.
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