> leaked private data, loss of life

This smells like more of a money move than a safety move.

Amodei is proposing to form a cartel of American frontier labs.

They all agree to shift compute away from cash-burning research and training toward cash-generating inference.

Then tacitly agree not to compete on price.

They'll install independent auditors inside each company to ensure nobody cheats.

And back it up with government regulation or diktat to punish defectors from the cartel.

Then they'll lock out non-American labs with export controls and regulations on open-weights models to funnel global inference tokens through their cartel.

It wouldn't be the first time a tech oligopoly used "safety" as the pretext to establish a government-sanctioned cartel.

Railroads and airlines ran this same playbook.