Dylan Patel Questions Legality of AI Slowdown Efforts
AI researchers debate whether public calls to slow frontier progress amount to illegal collusion.
Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, posted that Anthropic and OpenAI staff urging slower AI progress engage in the kind of collusion antitrust rules were meant to stop. He linked an AnthropicAI tweet about pacing development. OpenAI researcher Mo Bavarian replied that public industry-wide decisions probably fall outside antitrust law. Gary Marcus added that the companies are asking governments for mandatory frameworks rather than colluding privately. Effective accelerationist Beff Jezos called coordinated deceleration illegal and pushed for faster progress instead.
The funny thing about Anthropic and OpenAI people saying they want to slow down AI progress is that this is what Anti Trust mechanisms were built for. It's illegal to collude and slow down AI progress.
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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosCoordinated Deceleration is literally illegal. The only way forward is to accelerate through
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RO MB Mo Bavarian@mobav0Colluding behind closed doors and in hush-hush way should be illegal. But deciding publicly, industry-wide, to slow down AI progress at the frontier doesn't seem to be against Anti Trust laws. (At least the spirit of them - I am also curious whether it's even illegal at all.)…
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MB Mo Bavarian@mobav0Colluding behind closed doors and in hush-hush way should be illegal. But deciding publicly, industry-wide, to slow down AI progress at the frontier doesn't seem to be against Anti Trust laws. (At least the spirit of them - I am also curious whether it's even illegal at all.)…
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GM Gary Marcus@GaryMarcusfascinating comments on possible slowdown – but probably a red herring. - Anthropic and OpenAI presumably aren’t colluding to slowdown, they are asking governments to build a framework such that a slowdown might be mandatory at some point. - governments are free(ish) to…
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GM Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus@dylan522p not sure it’s really as you say:
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