Geopolitics

Beijing is reportedly weighing limits on training data transfers and on downloading model weights, while keeping cloud access. Nothing is in force, and that is not reassuring.

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…

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.

We have spent years compressing response time. The interval between perceiving a threat and deciding to escalate is the one that should stay long.