Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposes slowing AI development through embedded evaluators in labs, coordinated safety standards among frontier AI companies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments. Critics argue these measures would strengthen a cartel of leading AI firms, impose burdens on startups, require waiving antitrust laws, and are unverifiable internationally.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for antitrust laws to be suspended for AI firms, claiming they need to coordinate development to reduce existential risks. The company plans to go public via IPO, and the author argues the SEC should block it, citing inadequate risk disclosures and concerns that the founders are selling potentially dangerous products to investors.