Why U.S. AI labs can't hit the brakes—even if they wanted to:
1. Zero trust left. They've been screaming "AI doom" since GPT-2 to build a regulatory moat. Cried wolf too many times. No one's buying the pause narrative now.
2. China isn't slowing down. Their researchers are making real breakthroughs, not just copying. If we pause and they don't, they hit AGI first. That's game over for everyone.
3. A slowdown means Anthropic and OpenAI control the entire pace of intelligence and innovation. It kills sovereignty—businesses and individuals can't own their AI stack or build custom models. Everyone's stuck renting the same outputs.
AI needs to be open source. Global checks and balances. A handful of labs shouldn't control reality itself through model outputs.
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1. Zero trust left. They've been screaming "AI doom" since GPT-2 to build a regulatory moat. Cried wolf too many times. No one's buying the pause narrative now.
2. China isn't slowing down. Their researchers are making real breakthroughs, not just copying. If we pause and they don't, they hit AGI first. That's game over for everyone.
3. A slowdown means Anthropic and OpenAI control the entire pace of intelligence and innovation. It kills sovereignty—businesses and individuals can't own their AI stack or build custom models. Everyone's stuck renting the same outputs.
AI needs to be open source. Global checks and balances. A handful of labs shouldn't control reality itself through model outputs.
e/acc