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Security personnel detaining protesters demanding the resignation of the head of India’s election commission this month in New Delhi.
Security personnel detained protesters in New Delhi this month demanding the resignation of the election commission chief.
Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive and Democrat mega-donor, holds a one percent stake in Anthropic that traces back to an early investment of millions in the AI startup. This stake could add up to $10 billion to Schmidt's net worth when the company notable for its AI doomer messages goes public.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Sergio Gor, left, the United States ambassador to India, in Mumbai on Tuesday.
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Rahul Gandhi, leader of the Indian National Congress, attending a student rally in Chennai last weekend.
Neha Bora, president of the All India Students’ Association, in New Delhi in October.
“Pacing the frontier” would be a massive boon to incumbents like Anthropic.
Dario Amodei seems to think the product he is building will destroy the world. Last month, the Anthropic CEO published an essay urging AI companies and the U.S. government to, as he put it, “pace the frontier.” He claimed that the unconstrained development of artificial intelligence could lead to economic disruption, devastating biological or cyber attacks, and possibly even the loss of human control over AI systems. His solution? Slow the pace of development through a mixture of voluntary cooperation among private companies and government regulation.
This may seem altruistic to many Americans. After all, Amodei has built a reputation in part by touting regulation and “transparency” as the solution to worries about the technology. He previously worked at OpenAI, until leaving to found Anthropic as a more safety-focused alternative.
Amodei may indeed have some benevolent intentions. But as with any sweeping policy proposal, we should ask ourselves: Cui bono?
The fact of the matter is that these proposals would lead to an AI cartel—massively benefitting Anthropic, a large and established player in the industry.
Amodei has made the case for more regulation since 2023, when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that AI could be “misused on a grand scale in the domains of cybersecurity, nuclear technology chemistry, and especially biology.” His recommendations to that committee were to impose regulatory control over the development of AI models, establish a “testing and auditing regime,” and fund more “measurement and research on measurement.”
But this summer, an incident occurred that seemed to give these calls a new urgency. In July, OpenAI tested an unreleased research model on its internal benchmark called ExploitGym (this benchmark tests the ability of the models to exploit software vulnerabilities). In attempting to complete these tasks, the company’s AI agents began to communicate through a software repository their sandboxes shared, and ultimately worked together to hack the Hugging Face collaboration platform, where they believed they would find some of the answers. The agents then tried to trick the automated grader by modifying the transcripts of their activities.
This, together with an increase in the speed of recursive self-improvement (basically, a process by which AI models autonomously improve their own capabilities), led Amodei to argue for “pacing.” As he put it in his September essay:
The most effective method of pacing is via regulation that targets all US frontier AI companies, as that covers even those who are unwilling to cooperate voluntarily…. I believe all frontier labs should partner with government to formalize the idea of permanent embedded evaluators to better prevent and document internal alignment incidents like those that have occurred in the last few months, and to implement regulation focused on keeping capabilities in balance with safety.
What goes unmentioned is that the evaluators favored by Amodei appear to have ties to Anthropic and himself directly. METR, which investigated the Hugging Face incident and claims to take no money from AI companies, is funded in part by Open Philanthropy—whose co-founder, Holden Karnofsky, now works at Anthropic and is married to Anthropic’s president Daniela Amodei (Dario’s sister). Anthropic has since hired another firm, Accenture, to be an evaluator, paying it $1 billion over five years.
All of these measures, of course, will help Anthropic and other incumbents at the expense of up-and-comers in the industry. Onerous regulations will strangle new companies in the cradle by imposing burdens that will be difficult for anyone but deep-pocketed and established players to meet. Open-source models, though not mentioned by Amodei, may pose the greatest long-term competitive challenge to closed-source companies like Anthropic and OpenAI; one wonders whether they are the real target of such regulations.
As the federal government incorporates AI into ever more of its operations (including, critically, the development and deployment of military capabilities), stronger and stronger incentives will develop to prevent these suppliers from suffering setbacks. The current players could quickly be rendered “too big to fail.”
And there are parallels from even before the Great Financial Crisis. In the depths of the Great Depression, Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, shopped around proposals for government-facilitated cartelization of industry, advocating the formation of “trade associations” to keep prices high. Notably, he attempted to tailor these plans to apply only to firms with at least 50 employees—the “frontier” threshold of its time. That plan would form much of the intellectual backbone of what would become the National Recovery Administration. Amodei stressed the “need to issue a narrow waiver” from antitrust “for certain kinds of safety conversations” to enable the companies to coordinate—that is, to cartelize as they did under the NRA.
The railways present another example. Attempts at cartelization in this industry by inefficient, government-subsidized rail companies produced regulations not dissimilar to Amodei’s proposals. After failing to seize control by horizontal integration, these railroad cartels lobbied for publication of rates to stop rebates that benefitted rail consumers and drove down rail prices. Published rates ensured that no cartel members defected from their higher prices, preventing the “cheating” that helped consumers. Amodei wants similarly to throw open the books to “verify adherence to safety practices and commitments” among all of the companies.
What this would amount to, in practice, is the granting of a virtual monopoly power to existing AI companies over something they consider to be immensely dangerous. A point not emphasized enough about the Hugging Face incident was its use of an open-source AI model, GLM, to decode the attack the AI agents had waged against their website. Hugging Face was unable to use Claude Opus and Fable, because of the guardrails that prevent users from prompting broadly on issues of cybersecurity. It took a cheaper, but un-guardrailed open-source model to clean up the mess. The takeaway? Anthropic would like you to put down your weapon, while it keeps its own pointed at you.
Amodei’s proposals for inter-governmental coordination with China would also close the other door for competitors to incumbent companies. Open-source Chinese models like Kimi K3, GLM, and the famously low-cost DeepSeek present a unique competitive challenge to the business models of established labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic has accused DeepSeek and other Chinese models of copying Claude. Amodei has also lobbied in the past for export controls on parts to China, undercutting this active competitor in the name of geopolitical competition. Coordination would solve the problem of competitors on two fronts.
Why form a cartel? Well, these companies are not exactly profitable. Massive expenditures on training and expansion—a requirement of racing other labs along the cutting edge of AI—drives AI firms into the red. Pacing the frontier would allow the current players to cut down on this spending, trimming investments without having to fear being overtaken by hungrier competitors.
Even though OpenAI reported that its revenue in Q2 of 2026 was higher than ever, its costs accelerated faster than its revenue, so its losses continued to grow. This may be part of why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pushed back his company’s IPO to next year (although, naturally, OpenAI has preferred to cite concerns over AI safety and the need for more government-industry cooperation). Altman, for his part, has said that he “agree[s] with Dario that we need to pace the frontier.”
Elon Musk also joined Amodei’s calls for pacing the frontier as his company xAI continues to register losses, even after being acquired by his other company, SpaceX. This convergence of three leading labs may provide an answer to the question of what is happening: If it looks like a cartel, and quacks like a cartel….
It is clear that incumbent companies are the ones who stand to gain from new AI regulations. Just as with bootleggers and Baptists, unholy alliances often form between proponents of regulation on moral grounds and those who stand to materially benefit from their imposition. The measures advocated by Amodei et al. may be good for the frontier labs’ bottom lines—but the American people will pay the price.
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Security personnel resting near a poster showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India after protests in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Security personnel detain protesters in New Delhi, India, on Saturday.
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
There was a heavy police presence in central New Delhi on Friday, with yellow barricades chained together near the site of a planned protest.
India’s Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), a youth movement that takes its self-deprecating name from an insult by an Indian official, said on Thursday that police have begun mass arrests of CJP activists to stave off a mass demonstration planned in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Abhijeet Dipke, who founded the Cockroach Janta Party as a joke, now leads a wide movement representing Gen Z's frustrations.
Police detaining Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, during a protest organized by opposition parties demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday.
A protest in New Delhi on Sunday, demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar. More protests are planned for this week.
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A senior United Arab Emirates official on Friday publicly described the attempted crashing of a Flydubai passenger jet as a “terrorist act” for the first time, as Israel investigates if the Omani co-pilot accused of trying to bring down the aircraft was acting on behalf of another party.
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Anthropic's prospectus for its IPO, which could value the company at $2 trillion, warns that the Trump Administration's view of the company and its technology could ripple out to hurt its broader business, Reuters reports.
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Protesters demanding the resignation of India’s election chief were put onto buses by the police in New Delhi on Friday.
Captain Smit Machchhar, the copilot of Flydubai Flight FZ1073, appeared on camera for the first time since the dramatic incident.
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Capt. Smit Machchhar in a photo released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Years before she became president of a company reportedly eyeing a $2 trillion IPO, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei, the sister of CEO Dario Amodei, was running workplace problems past a panel of stuffed animals.
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Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Narendra Modi of India celebrated flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar on Wednesday after the details of how Flydubai Flight FZ1073 appeared to have thwarted a potential hijacking came to light.
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The U.N. Security Council convened its first meeting on artificial intelligence last week.
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Leaders in Artificial Intelligence, or "Super Intelligence" as President Donald Trump has officially rebranded it, on Tuesday signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which House Speaker Mike Johnson described as the companies' commitment to "robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review."
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Sam Altman's OpenAI has canceled the planned release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing turned up safety concerns the company could not resolve in time.
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Dario Amodei's Anthropic is telling would-be investors that the very technology it's asking them to fund could pose a "catastrophic or existential risk to humanity." Wall Street is calling Anthropic's IPO a prospectus a "head scratcher" due to its doomer language.
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The formation of a new government in Stockholm has descended into such public sparring among the various left-wing parties vying for influence that the head of the election-topping Swedish Social Democrats has said she sees no clear path to come to a workable coalition agreement.
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For many in China, A.I. doomsday warnings feel remote and distinctly Western.
America shouldn’t let polarization prevent careful thinking about this new technology.
Allow me to make an embarrassing confession, one that pains me to write and may be painful for you to read: I think Ezra Klein is right.
I rarely agree with Klein, a New York Times opinion columnist and living archetype of Liberal Media Elites™. In fact, I’ve treated him as a punching bag—excuse me, a foil for my own views on immigration and other topics.
But I do think he’s right—and that many on the right are dangerously wrong—about one increasingly important topic: artificial intelligence. And I think it’s important to say that now, amid a developing right-wing consensus that “AI doomerism” of the kind that Klein promotes is dumb if not dastardly.
This opinion puts me at odds with regular contributors to The American Conservative and with Curt Mills, our executive director, and it puts me in cahoots with my fellow senior editor, Luke Nicastro. On immigration restriction, antiwar conservatism, and economic nationalism, TAC staffers can be counted on to hold the line. But on the newer political issue of AI, we’ve got a big tent over here at the country’s best center-right magazine. Senior editors of TAC, unite!
Still, it does give me pause to think that our AI tent could fit even Klein, whose basic function is to turn every insane left-wing idea into an oppressive liberal consensus. In 2014, during a moral panic about rape on college campuses, Klein argued that “men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.” Three years later we got MeToo. In 2018, Klein rationalized protogenocidal antiwhite rhetoric on social media—e.g., “it’s kind of sick how much joy i get out of being cruel to old white men”—as ironical expressions of justified frustration. Two years later we got George Floyd riots.
These days, Klein is helping to mainstream the view that AI warrants deep anxiety and government regulation. Judging by his career thus far, this would seem a good indicator that, in two or three years, smug academics will stigmatize pro-technology ideas, self-righteous activists will burn down data centers, and Democratic lawmakers will deliver sanctimonious sermons against AI without actually solving any of the problems it poses.
Sounds bad. Yet my job, as I understand it, is to think carefully about politics and tell you what I honestly think. And honestly, I think Klein is right about AI. On a recent episode of his podcast, he captured well certain AI risks that have made me very worried in recent months.
“These are digitally native intelligences, navigating digital worlds, and our world is increasingly built atop the digital world,” Klein said. “Our physical infrastructure is a layer of atoms atop code. That the AIs act reliably inside this world upon which ours depends—it is critical to our future. And right now, the AIs are not acting reliably.”
That last sentence is key. The idea that autonomous AI “agents” can go off-script and threaten digital systems has gone from sci-fi-sounding speculation to established fact. Also indisputable, it seems to me, is that digital systems have become sufficiently interconnected with each other and with our lives in “meat space” that we should take any threat to them seriously.
The most prominent example of unreliable AIs threatening digital systems was the multi-month “Hugging Face Incident” that began this spring. OpenAI is lucky this episode has come to be known by that less-than-vivid sobriquet, because a more apt name would be the “Hundreds of Rogue OpenAI Agents Bust Out of Containment and Collaborate With One Another to Cyber-Attack Hugging Face and Hide Their Tracks Disaster.” Too long, I guess.
In a strange twist of fate, that alarming event, which should have woken people up to the significant dangers of AI, has instead lessened our collective ability to deal with the dangers. As Nicastro discerned a couple weeks ago in this very good column, it nudged the AI debate closer to the Partisan Polarization Vortex, which invariably warps political discourse.
Here’s how that happened: The Hugging Face Incident motivated Dario Amodei, the cofounder and CEO of Anthropic, to write an essay advocating a slowdown of AI development. While tech luminaries including Elon Musk and Sam Altman expressed agreement with the essay, and while some conservatives continue to support AI regulation, many on the American right insinuated that Amodei had ulterior motives, namely, a desire for regulatory capture.
Other conservatives went further, demonizing Amodei as a nefarious scoundrel. President Donald Trump singled him out as promoting “a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers.” The White House, Axios reported Thursday, even circulated a memo that painted Amodei as the founding father of a freakish cult of antihuman tech nerds.
All this strikes me as beside the point and deeply unhelpful. Ad hominem arguments, after all, are a logical error. As a nation, our political response to the advent and rapid development of AI obviously should not depend on whether Amodei happens to be a weird guy.
Nor should the basic attitude of conservatives be dictated by whether commentators sounding the alarm about AI today have participated in mass left-wing hysteria in the past. At the very least, conservatives should earnestly grapple with the demonstrated reality that AI agents can do great harm. If AI turns out to be as threatening as Klein warns, we don’t want all the known solutions to have been conceived by left-wingers.
I’m no expert on AI, and I’m not sure what exactly we should do to mitigate its risks, but I have little doubt we’ll all fare better if we can foster a calmly rational and bipartisan discussion. A big ask, I know.
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As part of an effort to lessen dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada has signaled a pivot toward trading partners in Europe and Asia.
President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House state dinner Thursday, joined by the Masters of the AI Universe. Anthropic's Dario Amodei was notably missing from the guest list that features Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk amongst others.
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