Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez Says Anthropic’s AI-Safety Plan Would Create a Silicon Valley Cartel
Summary
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says Anthropic chief Dario Amodei’s AI-safety roadmap would create a Silicon Valley cartel by seeking antitrust exemptions, and urges transparent, internationally governed rules targeting real-world harms such as voice-cloning fraud and unsafe hospital AI.
Key Points
- Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez attacks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposed AI-safety roadmap, saying its requested antitrust exemptions would create a Silicon Valley cartel that dictates global AI rules.
- Gomez calls for an international, evidence-based risk framework with mandatory transparency, publicly funded testing and open certification based on an AI system’s capabilities and deployment context rather than its developer’s size.
- He says frontier-focused regulation misses immediate harms such as voice-cloning fraud and poorly specified models in hospitals, and argues critical infrastructure should use sovereign, locally deployed AI systems.