I can understand why some see a real technical reason to pause and harden infrastructure especially given how fast autonomous agents are discovering security exploits that haven't even been mapped out yet however I still think Dario & Anthropic pushing for AI safety regulations rn is mostly about money because their upcoming S1 filings are going to show crazy burn rates on compute so calling for safety audits gives them a perfect excuse to freeze spending without looking weak to investors I see this whole effective altruism safety movement as a new kind of gatekeeping where a small group claims they know what is best for everyone wanting state regulators to lock down model weights & restrict access while calling it public good I believe open models & sovereign compute will win anyway because intelligence naturally leaks and decentralizes so trying to build a corporate cartel around code just will not work in the long run whatt makes this even more revealing is the arrogant geopolitical protectionism hidden beneath the ethical theater… when Amodei explicitly lobbies to outlaw "unauthorized distillation", restrict cloud compute access & lock down model weights under national security pretexts, it exposes the true motive: a desperate attempt to weaponize state power against opensource competition and sovereign AI progress worldwide(especially targeting China's rapid algorithmic efficiency gains) by treating any breakthrough outside SV as either intellectual theft or contraband