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The more you believe these models are massively dangerous, the more the Anthropic position feels principled.

If you believe frontier AI is an existential threat, Anthropic's push for caution and regulation looks principled rather than like regulatory capture. ✦ AI generated

Rory · 20VC · 2026-07-30 · original ↗

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The more you believe they're massively dangerous, the more you believe you're building the bomb here, the more the entropic position feels principled, right?

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6:37again, as we saw back on the Pentagon thing, sometimes you can be too clever by half. And in a way, there's a constituency for whom the entropic position is entirely consistent. Remember I said there's two things that there's not agreement on. And one of them is are these things massively dangerous or they just present a series of, you know, manageable but real threats. the more you believe they're

7:00massively dangerous, the more you believe you're building the bomb here, the more the entropic position feels principled, right? So, while I agree with you, I think most people are like open weights model aren't the atomic bomb. Everybody get over your Oenheimer complex, right? It's just technology, right? that does present some risks and that's why the open AI discussion on hugging face at the same time is super

7:23interesting because it is an example of quite a serious cyber risk that was generated by a frontier model though ironically at the same time it might argue for not having as much regulation on those models. So there's a there's a whole bunch of stuff going on at the same time. >> Can we just can we just provide some context for those who maybe aren't aware about the hugging face breach by OpenAI

▦ Anthropic ◉ Dario

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Everyone's business model gets a lot better if the two frontier labs can't extract about a hundred billion dollars of revenue this year from their businesses.Jason · 20VC · conf 70%

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provides context → Anthropic's three policy recommendations — restricting chip sales to China, punishing distillation, and requiring regulatory approval for models — would add up to de facto banning or slowing open-weight models, constituting regulatory capture.Rory · 20VC supports → The growing gap between what AI companies develop internally and what they release publicly is a significant safety and governance problem that requires mechanisms like maximum training compute ratios relative to released models.Nathan · The Cognitive Revolution rebuts → Dario's regulatory logic is internally consistent but practically impossible because it requires China to participate in a regulatory regime while simultaneously banning chip sales to them.Rory · 20VC rebuts → Anthropic is on track to become the most powerful monopoly in human history, and the safety rhetoric around AI is a modern version of Rockefeller's playbook — using calls for safety regulation as a tool of regulatory capture to entrench dominance.David Sacks · All-In Podcast rebuts → Anthropic has a proven pattern of using fear and scare tactics as a marketing strategy around their product releases, making this Mythos announcement suspect despite having some legitimate basis.David Sacks · All-In Podcast