David Sacks rejects the case for AI regulation
5 Sep 13 · 13d ago · 44 articles · 10 videos · 51 posts · 257 comments · 9 sources · development 5 of 8
White House-aligned tech investor David Sacks publicly pushed back on Amodei and Altman's pacing message, arguing OpenAI and Anthropic already hold a competitive duopoly and telling them to keep racing rather than slow down.
“You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier”
David Sacks
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO
Elon Musk xAI/SpaceX/Tesla CEO
Sam Altman OpenAI CEO
David Sacks White House-aligned tech investor/AI adviser
Marc Benioff Salesforce CEO
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What was reported 4 claims about this development
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first by Reuters, 13d ago · also HN Frontpage, CNN, KTVZ-TV, KVIA-TV, ThePrint, Jerusalem Post +5
7 more headlines
- Anthropic CEO Says It’s Time to Slow AI Model Advances Bloomberg.com · 13d ago
- Anthropic CEO calls for ‘pacing the frontier’ of AI race amid safety concerns CNN · 13d ago
- Why Altman and Musk backed Anthropic CEO’s call to slow the AI race—but some see a corporate motive ThePrint · 13d ago
- 'We Must Pace the Frontier': Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development Jerusalem Post · 13d ago
- Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development iTnews · 13d ago
- 5 key points from Anthropic CEO’s call to slow frontier AI development Anadolu Agency · 13d ago
- Anthropic CEO Calls for Slowdown in the AI Race NBC News · 13d ago
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first by Neowin, 13d ago · also HN Best, HN Frontpage
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first by Bloomberg Politics, 12d ago
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1 outlet David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
first by Mastodon, 13d ago
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What people said 24 voices · best of 282 · verbatim
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier
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“.. It was a rare display of unity by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who have been spending tens of billions of dollars to develop evermore powerful artificial intelligence models.” @wsj.com
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I flagged spam as this post is essentially a bunch of a science fiction from the CEO of Anthropic and therefore meets the criteria of "content designed to promote a commercial service"
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei all agree AI development needs to slow down. What have they seen that we haven’t? What happened behind closed doors? What haven’t they told us?
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You run into diminishing returns. It can take over 2x as long to develop a model that’s 11% better than it does to develop one that’s 10% better because that extra 1% is incredibly difficult to achieve. Then you have the next 0.1% being even harder, and so on. Anthropic might be starting to run into this issue already. So if they feel like they’re…
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Buckle up.I’ve spent a lot of time studying opinions coming out of the frontier labs, and talking directly to employees. I think we’re cooked for the following reasons- Everything connected to the Internet will eventually be hacked. For decades, we’ve slowly migrated all of our critical systems to devices connected to one giant network. Misaligned…
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Serious question: Do we really believe anything that these guys say?
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It's absolutely wild that responsible security researchers have been arrested on CFAA/DMCA charges for way less than the HF incident, and yet barely anyone I've heard talk about this has framed it as a CFAA violation. California has a bill, apparently, but honestly, we shouldn't even need a bill for this. It seems pretty morally unambiguous to…
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If you have news apps on your device, chances are you’ve seen push notifications about Anthropic’s Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown and better supervision of these companies and models. I think this is one of the most important documents about the future of humanity to have been written in some time, and if you have an interest in this…
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I believe that their goal is to ensure the end of Open Large Language models from China. Not necessarily from NVIDIA / US open models but China. If there are people who think recursive self learning AI models aren't coming and that we can effectively halt RSI - I have a bridge to sell you. This is coming with/without any slowdowns. State…
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The longer A.I. exists, the more difficult it is to find new information that's actually more valuable than what's already in the training set.New code found online will be more and more A.I. generated itself, creating a feedback loop that tops off the intelligence to a more or less the collective intelligence.It might even degrade, like saving a…
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Never more convinced that all of these companies are losing hundreds of billions and have no clue how to make a profit.
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> Some kind of “speed limit” on the rate of recursive self-improvement (RSI). Does recursive self improvement exist? Is there any documented case of it happening?
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https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14dpg m0rg4o # AI # creativeindustry # aisafety # bookstodon # readersofmastodon # writersofmastodon # supportcreators
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Theres a lot of cynicism in the comments here. There’s an interesting talk about the OpenAI Hugging Attack from OpenAI security team. I’d recommend a watch for any skeptic. What the sandboxed agents colluded to do to escape the sandbox is frankly terrifying. They were not tasked with escaping either, they just worked out how to chat with each…
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We're already seeing anti-AI sentiments, but the movement is still fringe with a vocal minority. However, that'll change soon without alignment. Without self-intervention, there will invariably be future incidents that can cause major economic impact, leaked private data, loss of life (directly/indirectly) etc. Once that happens, their social…
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When Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei all tell us they have no idea what they are doing, we should believe them nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t... and stop giving them trillions of dollars for a dangerous clown show. If their AI does damage, they can pay and possibly go to jail.
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Motives don't have to be malicious to be self-serving. Even if you believe in the efficacy of these kinds of regulations, I think it's a little disingenuous not to recognize "everyone should go as slow as we're going" as at least having an angle. I'm not saying Dario shouldn't have an angle, or expecting him to be a saint. I am just pointing out…
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Why has Anthropic boss Dario Amodei called for a halt in AI development? I suspect he's hit his human limits. He is in a blind funk, and he may not be alone. In other words, he literally has no idea what to do. He founded Anthropic, but nothing prepared him for what it has become. He is supposedly a guru, but he is also a human being. Put the two…
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The bubble isn’t about people using it at work or not. It’s about the amount of capital that doesn’t exist but is being treated like it does. None of these AI companies are close to profitable but they are valued at extraordinarily high numbers, then, based on that value, they plan some massive spend which causes another company value to soar…
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> At what point do we stop engaging with Anthropic’s leadership in good faithAbout two years ago?I would also note that Dario's post appears to be LLM written. Maybe... maybe... he's read so much Claudeish that it's all he can speak now himself. But I wonder if he's becoming a bit of a meat proxy.(It's funny, I thought "pace the frontier" was…
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All bullshit to cover for their inability to deliver recursive self improvement or really any meaningful model progress
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Anthropic might be the leading provider as of now, but they have good reason to fear others with a higher momentum. Getting your competitors regulated so they will never get ahead of you makes perfect business sense.
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We could totally build AGI, even super duper intelligent AI, promise. But hey, we're reasonable guys, we don't want to move too fast you know. Time to tap the brakes a little. Sam, me and Elon, we're famously reasonable people, we want to bring the rest of you along with us on this journey to Nirvana. But hey, we're still worth $2 trillion at IPO…
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