Gary Marcus gives Amodei 'two cheers out of three' and calls the METR evaluator choice regulatory capture

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Marcus endorses two parts of Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' — the transparency commitment and the agreement to slow acceleration — while rejecting the enforcement design outright, writing that 'Anthropic themselves shouldn't be choosing who does the evaluation.' He cites Heidy Khlaaf's argument that METR is 'ideologically and financially tied' to the labs it would evaluate, credits Deb Raji, Meg Mitchell and Timnit Gebru with making the transparency case first, and argues for liability, criminal charges and product recalls instead of embedded evaluators. He also faults Amodei for using China as a 'punching bag' rather than engaging it.