Amodei wants the government to be able to block model launches. The thread smells a moat (darioamodei.com)
Amodei frames AI like nuclear weapons and proposes an FAA-style regime: testing for cybersecurity, bioweapons, loss of control, and runaway R&D, with authority to block 'unacceptable' models.
The most-upvoted objection wasn't anti-safety. It pointed out that compliance overhead lands hardest on open-weight models — the exact competitors a frontier lab would want slowed down.
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