Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier
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Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Perplexity Labs, argues that the focus on AI safety is a pretext to restrict research, citing Anthropic's Fable 5 incident as an example. He claims that a small group of private labs is attempting to dictate who can conduct AI research, stifling innovation and progress in the field, posing a threat to the industry's advancement.
Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.