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What changedThe slowdown debate now has a sharper ideological counterattack. Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar argues that recent AI-safety warnings are shaped by effective altruism and that regulation framed as responsible restraint could instead take control away from the American public.
The Free Press presents this as Sankar’s case against taking the warnings at face value. It is a political judgement, not evidence that the risks are imaginary or that proposed rules would produce the outcome he predicts. Still, it improves the argument: alongside questions about cartels and open-source competition, any slowdown proposal now has to explain who gains authority, how that authority is checked and why the public should trust the arrangement.
Sources and evidence- Shyam Sankar, writing in The Free Press: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar argues that recent AI-safety warnings are influenced by effective altruism and should not simply be accepted at face value.
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