David Sacks to OpenAI and Anthropic: You Don't Need Permission to Slow Down
David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
David Sacks responds to Dario Amodei and Sam Altman's calls to "pace the frontier," telling them to go ahead and slow down if they believe their models are dangerous. He argues they already have a duopoly on frontier intelligence and don't need regulatory approval, antitrust suspension, or independent evaluators to do so. Sacks warns that demanding a regulatory framework as the price of restraint looks like blackmail and regulatory capture.
Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability.