Top AI Labs Leverage 'Doomerism' to Steer Regulation

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay calling for a deliberate slowdown in the development of sophisticated AI, echoing a growing chorus of existential warnings from industry insiders. This seemingly self-regulating plea is not an act of altruism but a strategic maneuver to shape the global regulatory landscape. By framing the debate around long-term, hypothetical "extinction" risks, large AI labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind aim to divert regulators