Matt Levine: Coordinated AI Safety Slowdown Could Resemble Antitrust Conspiracy
Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine commented that a coordinated slowdown by AI labs for safety reasons could be interpreted as an antitrust conspiracy to limit output and protect frontier model margins. He discussed this in the context of AI and antitrust, along with other topics like lockups and indexes.
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Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins — AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome. — P(doom)
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