Dario’s essay is hilarious because “AI safety” keeps collapsing into one very specific fear: China catching up.

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China appears ten times in an essay supposedly about saving humanity from AI. Dario’s essay is hilarious because “AI safety” keeps collapsing into one very specific fear: China catching up. Slow the frontier — but slow China more. Cooperate globally — but preserve the U.S. lead. Build safety rules — but make sure they widen America’s advantage. He even says the quiet part out loud: the goal is to “slow China’s progress” and protect the lead of the U.S. and its allies. At some point, this reads less like an AI safety essay than a geopolitical anxiety attack with footnotes. In the end, it is American primacy dressed up as civilizational stewardship. The apocalypse is apparently manageable as long as America owns it.

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We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our

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