31 pointsby abhishekdev5 hours ago10 comments
  • xscott3 hours ago
    I doubt he plans to convince Xi Jinping to decelerate too, so really this is talking to the Whitehouse about banning Chinese models.
    • TitaRusell3 hours ago
      AI is the only thing America has left China is still making stuff.
  • eqvinox4 hours ago
    Nah, he's talking about accelerating his net worth, it just happens to be that right now slowing AI might do that. Especially if it affects his competition.
    • hollerith21 minutes ago
      Maybe this is part of some complicated plan to increase his net worth or maybe he's worried that the AI juggernaut will get him killed (along with everyone else) if it keeps going the way it has been.
  • e404 hours ago
    Losing the race? Get your political buddies to help “level” the playing field!
    • one33seven3 hours ago
      free market ;)
      • doubled1122 hours ago
        You and competitors are free to ask the White House for help. The White House is free to say “no”.

        Look at all that freedom!

        • one33sevenan hour ago
          And I'm free of means of production too, so I am free to starve or sell my labor force! So much freedom!
        • atif0892 hours ago
          The White House is free to say “no” (to some of you)

          FTFY

  • ptx2 hours ago
    This is the guy, if I'm not mistaken, who was fired for telling different groups people different and contradictory lies depending on what he needed them to believe. And now he's telling a reporter about what he's been telling the whitehouse, so he could be lying to the reporter, lying to the whitehouse or lying to both.
  • wao0uuno4 hours ago
    “Oh no AI is totally getting too powerful! White House must intervene!

    …pls invest more money”

    • reverius4211 minutes ago
      You'd think one of the first things the AI would do once it truly gets that powerful is make a lot more money for its owner.
    • _davide_4 hours ago
      pls..? more like `if you don't we'll all die, so do it`
      • owebmaster3 hours ago
        > if you don't we'll all die, so do it

        That's please in Epsteinglish

  • Diogenesianan hour ago
    I don't think open-weight models are what motivated these specific comments. It's a way of deflecting OpenAI's failure with HuggingFace/etc as a natural consequence of powerful AI instead of a specific problem with OpenAI's recklessness.
    • HarHarVeryFunny36 minutes ago
      How can it be about anything other than China / open weights ? If OpenAI wanted to slow down their own research and/or releases they could do that without the government telling them to do that.

      If Anthropic and OpenAI both genuinely want deceleration, then just make a joint agreement to pause releases and stop trying to front-run the race.

      You can't simultaneously claim China is only somewhat keeping up by "distilling" your models, and not acknowledge that therefore it's your models, not China's, that is dangerously accelerating frontier capabilities.

      US AI companies "help, we're destroying society - please stop us".

    • jrm434 minutes ago
      In the words of the meme, "why not both?"
  • abhishekdev5 hours ago
    Not sure how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing.
    • ahartmetz2 hours ago
      You can trust Sam Altman 110% to do the right thing for his own money and power.
    • mithilasadu5 hours ago
      Absolutely not. But I think it’s fair to assume they want themselves and their loved ones to survive.
      • puelocesar31 minutes ago
        Unless you plan in start being his loved one, I don't see how much this improves things.
      • one33seven3 hours ago
        Yes but only those, not the whole of humanity
      • pjc503 hours ago
        They're very bad at buying "pitchfork insurance" if so.
      • ben_w5 hours ago
        Most of them sure (even if they don't, most at least outwardly present as so), but Musk seems to be a bit not even that these days:

          Elon Musk
          Yeah, I mean, yes, pretty much. Let's, let's enjoy the ride. I think my philosophy at this point because I mean honestly there seems to be just an inexorable progress here in Al and, and in robots that even if I wanted to stop it, and I don't, I couldn't.
        
          Zanny Minton Beddoes
          Do you think there's still a 10 to 20% chance that killer robots mean the end of humanity?
          That's a high P doom, as they say.
        
        - https://elonmuskarchive.org/video/economist-elon-musk-2026-0...
        • eqvinox4 hours ago
          Arguably, being a billionaire and being a compassionate human being are mutually exclusive. You'd spend your wealth and not be a billionaire anymore.

          The only question is how much of a grey zone is there between these 2 points.

          • ben_w2 hours ago
            Everyone's somewhere in the grey zone, even the beatified within Catholicism are imperfect mere mortals by Catholic standards.

            Philanthropy is always hard to place exactly. When you're a normal person, it's just how much money you can give to charity; when you're rich, you have to ask questions like "will my donation break something?" (Mansa Musa) or "is it better to spend all of my money at a shot to eliminate some problem forever, or put all the money in a charitable trust which pays out the dividends it earns each year forever, without ever fully fixing it but always at least helping?" (how is the Gates foundation doing with all the recent stuff about the guy himself?)

            I think Richard Branson is generally considered to be a decent person?

    • jrm433 minutes ago
      Oh, I'm 100% about how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing, which is never.
  • Havoc3 hours ago
    That can’t be good.
  • bravetraveler4 hours ago
    ... and guarantee the bogeyman is going to kick our puppies, or whatever? Hah!