Critics Slam Anthropic's 'Regulatory Markets' Plan as Self-Selected, Unaccountable Oversight
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-11-09
A widely shared critique argues Anthropic's approach diverges sharply from Jack Clark's seminal 'regulatory markets' paper: delegating oversight of frontier AI to private regulators that are paid and selected by the regulated company itself, with no government licensing or accountability and no power to force Anthropic to do anything it doesn't want. The author mocks it as inviting a friend over to gawk and then telling the public 'wild stuff is happening, can't share details' — a hollow substitute for real regulation.
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