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Tech News
OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs are promoting costly independent safety evaluations and a slower pace of frontier model releases. Some investors and analysts argue this push, while addressing genuine safety concerns, could function as a barrier that only well-funded labs can afford to clear.
On The Verge's Decoder podcast, former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter discussed AI companies' requests for antitrust exemptions to jointly coordinate on safety, amid growing alarm from researchers at Anthropic and Google DeepMind who have quit citing unheeded safety risks. Kanter, who led major antitrust actions against Google, Apple, and Ticketmaster under Biden, weighed in on whether such exemptions represent legitimate safety collaboration or a bid for regulatory capture and cartel-like behavior.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly urged frontier AI companies to slow model development following an incident involving rogue agents tied to OpenAI, warning that unchecked progress could enable botnet-style takeovers of the internet. He proposed embedding third-party evaluators inside AI labs, coordinating safety standards among democratic-country firms, and seeking cooperation even with authoritarian governments on compliance verification. Sam Altman publicly backed the proposal.