David Sacks: Dario's AI safety push is a recipe for centralized control

David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post

In a detailed response to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's post on AI regulation, David Sacks argues that Amodei misrepresents his critics, ignores the revolving door between AI companies and regulators, and that his proposed pre-release approval process would entrench incumbents like Anthropic while handicapping the US against China. Sacks contends that Anthropic's own business model depends on staying ahead of open models, making its safety advocacy self-serving, and warns that concentrating power in a federal bureaucracy and a few frontier labs is more dangerous than distributing AI capabilities.