Charlie O'Neill

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Prof G Markets · Why OpenAI And Anthropic Are Pumping The Brakes · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

It's just that we're gonna allocate more compute on top of it to to safety and monitoring.

There have been some, you know, people like David Sachs and so on saying that these labs are using this as an opportunity for regulatory capture to crowd out open source, um, to shut down competitors which are behind.

Um, I don't really think that's the case, to be honest.

I think like when you look at the main things that these labs are calling for, um, or at least instantiating on their own accord, um, it's things like third-party evaluators and this commitment of computer.

To monitoring and safety.

You know, those third party evaluators won't have necessarily any license or legal standpoint to, you know, shut down model development if they find things that they don't like.

Like that's still going to be up to the internal labs themselves.

I think, like, to be honest, like the best rate here isn't a conspiracy theory on either side.

Um, it's not the labs trying to crowd out open source.

Um, and you know, it's it's not some like, you know, kind of global.

Cooperation between OpenAI and Anthropic to crowd everyone else out either.

I think it's simply a case of, you know, these models are getting very, very good.

The closed source models got there first.

You know, in the next three to nine months, open source models are going to reach these capability points.

And we're now at the point where that could have significant um impacts on the world.

Even if it's not malicious and, you know, rogue AI is going off and trying to like kill humans.

There'll probably be significant annoyances.

Like the most likely scenario here is that things like the hug and face incident happen and the internet is overrun by like swarms of AI agents that are trying to get some like arbitrary task done that are not trying to be malicious or evil.

Um, and so like I think the labs just recognize this.

Um, some people have more extreme views, of course, but realistically, capabilities are going to progress.

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