David Sacks backs pacing the frontier but tells the labs to drop the antitrust waiver, and questions METR's independence
Washington Examiner (via r/singularity, 961 upvotes; corroborated by Neowin)·high signal
Sacks endorsed the substance of the slowdown in a long X post while rejecting its mechanism: companies asking regulators for help pacing the frontier should stop pretending antitrust law must be suspended "so you can form a cartel," and stop demanding an approval regime that supersedes existing product liability law. His summary line was "the easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it." He also attacked METR, the third-party evaluator Anthropic named in its proposal, as too entangled with Anthropic's investors and staff to act as a neutral referee.