AIDylan Patel Questions Legality of AI Slowdown Efforts
AI researchers debate whether public calls to slow frontier progress amount to illegal collusion.
TLDR
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.