Ex-AI czar urges firms to slow down

Former White House AI czar David Sacks urged Anthropic and OpenAI to slow frontier development but rejected trading restraint for antitrust waivers or special approvals. He argued product liability and markets already discipline risks and questioned the independence of Anthropic’s METR evaluator.

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