Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return
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If frontier labs want to pace capabilities without triggering a regulatory clampdown, they may have to accept ordinary product liability and competition law instead of bespoke regimes. For operators, assume a world where AI risk is handled through existing legal tools — not a new licensing authority — and price that liability into deployments.
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