> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people

The incredible hypocrisy to say this while the US itself is doing a sharp turn towards authoritarianism, with armed pro-government troops intimidating the population [0], where pro-government oligarchs openly talk of keeping the population under control with AI [1] all while actively enabling the rise of authoritarianism abroad [2] leaves a really bad taste in one's mouth.

What Dario really is opposed to is not authoritarianism. It's an authoritarianism where he's not part of the ruling class.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/remove-ice-u...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-s...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/civilisation...