Calls for artificial intelligence regulation have intensified in recent days, but the Trump administration seems unlikely to oblige. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend pleading for the US government to regulate AI companies and slow the pace of the technology's development. The essay received rare endorsement from both OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who owns chatbot Grok.
However, David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, pushed back against the idea, saying that if AI companies want to slow down, they should do it themselves. Sacks wrote on X, "If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else's permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel … Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic."
Amodei had requested the government enable competing AI companies to work together on standards without breaching antitrust law, either by participating in discussions or issuing a waiver for the companies involved. He also called for government assistance in establishing international coordination, including with the Chinese Communist Party, though critics wondered how effective this would be.
Concerns about the US ceding its lead in AI to China have caused the US government to mostly push back against the notion of slowing the pace of its development. Trump said during a visit to Ireland, "We're leading China on AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins." The US largely views China's AI ecosystem as an economic and national security threat and has previously been caught short by the country's advances in the technology.
In the meantime, companies say they are going to start taking voluntary steps to reestablish public trust that they are acting responsibly. OpenAI's Altman committed to a proposal by Amodei to give embedded third-party evaluators employee-level access to their firms to check that practices and products are safe and to report incidents. While these measures will have "significant costs," Altman wrote on X, "Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness."
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