David Sacks: companies should decide pacing to improve safety, not a government-wide slowdown
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David Sacks argues that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic should control their own pacing to improve safety, using product-liability laws as an existing incentive rather than seeking a broad government-wide slowdown. He points out that China is still “racing ahead,” which he says makes a blanket delay harder to justify. As a result, he supports company-level safety measures instead of coordinated regulatory throttling.
Why it matters
David Sacks argues that if OpenAI and Anthropic believe slowing down makes products safer, they should do it—citing product-liability laws as an existing incentive. He’s skeptical of turning this into a broader government-wide slowdown while China continues racing ahead.
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