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by ben_w 39 days ago
The owner of a thing deciding to whom they wish to provide access to the thing they own, is a necessary consequence of the concept of private property.

The only two alternative to a private entity making this decision are a government making this decision, or nobody making this decision, the latter of which is equivalent to both government and a private entity making the decision to do (1).

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That's a complete false dichotomy.

We create all kinds of consortiums to manage complex decisions that shouldn't be owned by one entity.

What, you mean like the US AI Safety Institute Consortium which Anthropic is a member of?

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/02/2023-24...

https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/nist-ai-consort...

Or the Coalition for Secure AI, ditto?

https://www.coalitionforsecureai.org/addressing-whats-next-i...

Or the Frontier Model Forum, of which they were a founding member?

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/1095a748082bb69e714d1d550713e2...

Consortium are entities, and the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI at least are openly begging for feedback with all their efforts to handle this, openly asking everyone else to figure out what the rules ought to be. Even if you think that too is a cynical ploy, they're asking.