alt Hacker News"if I don't do it, someone worse will"
Of course that's what Dario thinks because that's what every tech CEO thinks. Dario, Sam, Sundar, probably many Chinese CEOs as well. It's what everyone thinks. That's why they're competing so fiercely with one another. That's why they basically make all the same decisions. That's why we need properly open source AI.
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Open source AI fails first contact with sufficiently-intelligent-as-to-be-dangerous AI.
The day Mythos class models are open sourced will not be a good day. I don't think you understand the impact that will have on the world and on cyber defenders everywhere. It will be pure chaos.
Even if you don't think Mythos-class is the bar, open source has to stop at some point, you don't hand everyone a superweapon.
It's hard to be certain what each individual thinks. We can do our best to judge based on what they each say and do. And there are significant differences in what each of these individuals have chosen to say and do over the years. The info available to the public makes it seem a lot like Dario's motivations & priorities differ from those of Sam and others.
This doesn't seem like the right place to spend my time litigating that point to its fullest extent (no-one here is doing that). But there's plenty of relevant info surrounding eg.:
* The New Yorker article on Altman [1]
* The story behind Anthropic's founding
* Various efforts to influence government policy (a16z policies and contributors [2], Trump's inauguration donors [3], giving Trump credit for AI infrastructure [4], Dario's op-eds [5])
1: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...
2: https://a16z.com/portfolio/
3: https://www.opensecrets.org/trump/2025-inauguration-donors
4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe11mJ8mCHU
5: https://darioamodei.com/