Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier, arguing labs should coordinate on speed and give independent evaluators employee-like access. Within hours Musk replied “Dario is right,” Altman said “I agree with Dario” and committed to embedded evaluators, and Hassabis called it the right path forward.
The backlash came armed with new terms: an alignment aristocracy is what you get when “no one can be trusted with this” quietly becomes “no one but us.”