Safety Pact or Tech Cartel
Tech leaders are quietly agreeing to slow down AI development. Is it a genuine safety move, or a cartel blocking competition?
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AI could start upgrading itself by early 2027. This threat forced tech leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk to loosely agree to slow down development.
While they claim to pace the frontier, critics argue they are forming a cartel to block competitors. Yet the panic is real, as Anthropic estimates recursive self-improvement is already starting across the industry.