The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
By casting the problem as so complex that only they can solve it, he says, the big labs exclude everyone else from the conversation.“Ethics cannot be something that belongs to the board of trustees of a company. It’s something that has to be balanced, mitigated in debate in the public square.” Benanti tells WIRED. Whatever shape those standards take, he says, they should not be designed by the labs.“The narrative of the frontier labs is self-interested, to gain or maintain a position in the market,” says Benanti.
- ▪By casting the problem as so complex that only they can solve it, he says, the big labs exclude everyone else from the conversation.“Ethics cannot be something that belongs to the board of trustees of a company.
- ▪It’s something that has to be balanced, mitigated in debate in the public square.” Benanti tells WIRED.
- ▪Whatever shape those standards take, he says, they should not be designed by the labs.“The narrative of the frontier labs is self-interested, to gain or maintain a position in the market,” says Benanti.
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Joel KhaliliBusinessSep 23, 2026 2:03 PMThe Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big LabsPaolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyRecently, warnings from researchers inside the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs about the rapid pace of development have led to panic about the possibility that the technology could extinguish humanity.
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