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Latest2026-10-02
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1:24:07Hard Fork
0918
AI Executives Are Asking to Be Regulated: Even the Accelerationists Are Getting Spooked
Dario Amodei is calling for embedded evaluators stationed inside AI companies, and Altman, Musk and Hassabis are following — competitors who agree on almost nothing are, for the first time, saying publicly what they have said privately for years.
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AI safetyregulation
1:19:47Hard Fork
0911
AI executives are starting to ask: should we just mail a check to every nearby household?
Data centers face 70-30 bipartisan opposition — not because water usage is misreported, but because AI has no constituency. Solar has one. Auto plants have one. Data centers have only utilities and an already-unpopular AI industry.
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Data centersAI regulation