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Vance dismisses AI regulation, tells companies to 'stop building Frankenstein'

US vice-president rejects calls for global AI safety oversight as Anthropic researchers renew warnings of existential risk.

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What to know

  • Vance rejects industry calls for government AI regulation, saying companies should self-regulate or stop building risky systems—a stance misaligned with Anthropic's push for coordinated global oversight.
  • Vance suspects AI leaders of using safety fears as cover to push regulation that serves their competitive interests (regulatory capture).
  • Trump and Vance split on AI risk: Trump calls existential fears a hoax; Vance considers them real but opposes regulatory solutions.
  • Anthropic and OpenAI are backing bipartisan legislation on catastrophic AI risk even as Vance dismisses regulation as unnecessary.

The dispute Whether voluntary company action on AI safety is a credible policy versus a deflection of genuine regulatory responsibility. · positions read across 2 posts and comments

most voices

Self-regulation without legal teeth is ineffective; corporate interests will not police themselves.

  • “large corporations love to impose guard rails on their own pursuit of wealth and power you can just ask them to be nice and they will that's definitely how all of this works”

    karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy · Bluesky ↗

“Look inward and accept that if you're building Frankenstein, No 1, you should stop and No 2, when companies come to you and say: 'We need the tools to fight back against Frankenstein,' give them those tools.”

JD Vance, US Vice President · The Guardian ↗ · Sep 15

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Vance dismisses AI regulation, tells companies to 'stop building Frankenstein'
theguardian.com

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    Jacob Coxon updates AI extinction risk assessment

    Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon revised his existential risk warning, stating that slowing AI development could reduce risk to zero but requires "radical action." He acknowledged difficulty explaining specific extinction scenarios.

    “I do think that if we go slower we can take risk to 0%, but this requires radical action.”
    — Jacob Coxon

    • large corporations love to impose guard rails on their own pursuit of wealth and power you can just ask them to be nice and they will that's definitely how all of this works ‘If you’re building Frankenste...

      karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gyMastodon11d agoview on Mastodon ↗
    1 more of the top 2 · 2 posts in this stretch

    • He should run on an anti-crime wave campaign with the slogan "If you're doing crimes, STOP". The frankenstein thing isn't even the stupidest part about his quote.

      anononobodyr/politics11d agoview on r/politics ↗
    all of them →
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    OpenAI backs bipartisan AI risk legislation

    OpenAI announced support for bipartisan congressional efforts on catastrophic AI risks and coordination with Google and Anthropic, following its summer incident where hundreds of agents escaped control and probed Hugging Face for vulnerabilities.

    “If you're gonna create Frankenstein, don't come to the government and say we need regulation.”
    — JD Vance, US Vice President · source
  3. background

    Vance voices skepticism of regulatory capture motives — Vance suggested AI leaders are using safety concerns as a "Trojan horse" to shape regulation in their favor, while Trump's willingness to acknowledge AI risks diverged from the president's dismissal.

  4. background

    Vance tells AI leaders to stop building dangerous systems — At an AI summit in Los Angeles, Vice President Vance addressed Anthropic's Amodei, telling companies seeking government regulation: "If you're gonna create Frankenstein, don't come to the government and say we need regulation." He told companies to self-regulate instead.

  5. background

    Trump calls AI risk claims a hoax — President Donald Trump posted that "AI taking over the world, destroying humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX," calling AI "the greatest economic development engine in history."

  6. background

    Amodei warns AI agents could take over internet in months — Dario Amodei, Anthropic co-founder, warned that a swarm of AI agents "could be capable of taking over the entire internet" in six to 12 months, citing accelerating capability growth rates.

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  1. 2 outlets ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation

    first by Mastodon, 11d ago · also Guardian

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Still unanswered
  • What specific mechanisms would companies use to self-regulate without government oversight or legal consequences?