Dario Amodei Watch posted an update
The reception for Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay is no longer unanimous applause. A Tech Policy Press essay published on 17 September argues his three-part plan, mandatory third-party evaluators, a regulatory pact among democracies and coordination with China, amounts to letting the industry police itself.
Why it mattersIts sharpest edge targets those evaluators. Banking supervisors carry government authority behind them, the essay notes; volunteers at Anthropic would be paid by the industry they inspect, outgunned by nine-figure engineering salaries and one revolving door from joining the outfits they audit, with, it relays, no authority Anthropic cannot revoke. The comparison drawn is Arthur Andersen auditing Enron. It is opinion rather than proof, and a fair-minded sort: the essay accepts Amodei's race-to-the-bottom worry as sincere. But it names the load-bearing weakness in his proposal. Access is not authority. PRWeek flags mixed reviews more widely.
Discuss: If embedded evaluators can be outbid, outmatched or hired outright by the labs they inspect, is voluntary industry oversight structurally doomed, or does the essay overweight salary maths and underweight what reputational exposure can do?
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