Move Slow and Collude: The Antitrust Problem With Pacing AI
The frontier AI race’s latest safety proposal would have the leading contenders agree on how fast to run. Antitrust law has a less flattering name for that arrangement: a cartel.
That is the central problem with the “pacing the frontier” plan that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unveiled last weekend, and that fellow AI executives Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis welcomed within hours. The plan would have leading AI labs coordinate on safety standards and limits on the pace of development. The proposed safety goals are legitimate but the arrangement would go too far in…
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