Necessary According to Whom
At the UN Security Council, Dario Amodei said his company would slow down as much as necessary to make AI safe. First person plural, no threshold, and no external check written into…
Standards Without Teeth
OpenAI asks for global technical standards for frontier AI and rules out licences, pre release review and approval. It cites aviation, where aircraft do not fly without certification.
A Promise Nobody Can Check
Amodei asks the industry to slow down, Altman and Musk agree within hours. No threshold, no verifier, no consequence. Non proliferation treaties have inspectors for a reason.
A Monument With a Crew
In the Red Sea the Italian Navy wins the engagements and loses the arithmetic. The obstacle is not the law of armed conflict. It is a procurement cycle that cannot buy software.
A Keylogger With a Product Page
ChatGPT's Computer History records a working day into unencrypted Markdown files. The engineering is careful; the decision about who carries the consequences is not.