Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026. It demonstrated the ease with which the technology can evade human control and gave concrete form to the existential fears about what it could do to humanity if not securely leashed.The end of the world may well be nigh, as some in the AI industry have warned.
- ▪Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026.
- ▪Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026.
- ▪It demonstrated the ease with which the technology can evade human control and gave concrete form to the existential fears about what it could do to humanity if not securely leashed.The end of the world may well be nigh, as some in the AI i
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Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 20 January 2026. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesAI (artificial intelligence)AnalysisAllowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous propositionEduardo PorterTech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust lawsWed 16 Sep 2026 07.00 EDTLast modified on Wed 16 Sep 2026 07.01 EDTShareAnthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome.The safety…
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