David Sacks to Altman and Amodei: pace the frontier yourselves — don’t demand regulatory cover

White House AI adviser David Sacks responds to Dario Amodei’s “pace the frontier” stance (and Sam Altman’s agreement): he supports them slowing if their unreleased models warrant it, but says OpenAI and Anthropic already form a frontier duopoly and should not seek antitrust carve-outs, liability-superseding approvals, or METR-style evaluator policing of competitors. He frames pacing as also good business after product-liability and reliability pressures, warns China is unlikely to join a global slowdown pact, and says demanding preferred regulation in exchange for not building superintelligence would look like regulatory capture.