{"id":2811,"date":"2026-09-14T03:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/do-you-read-this-as-a-ai-companies-taking-responsibility-or-as-the-letter-to-the-sheriff\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:17:24","slug":"do-you-read-this-as-a-ai-companies-taking-responsibility-or-as-the-letter-to-the-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/do-you-read-this-as-a-ai-companies-taking-responsibility-or-as-the-letter-to-the-sheriff\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you read this as a ai companies taking responsibility, or as the letter to the sheriff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dario says AI development must slow down. , Sam agrees. Elon says, &#8220;Dario is right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My reaction may surprise some people.<\/p>\n<p>But here it is&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Then slow down. Who is stoping you<br \/>\nYou are the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>If the technology you are building has reached a point where you believe it could threaten humanity, you do not need permission to become more careful.<\/p>\n<p>You do not need a new law to ship slower.<br \/>\nYou do not need a global treaty to release fewer capabilities.<br \/>\nYou do not need regulators to tell you to stop doing something you already believe is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Just slow down.<\/p>\n<p>This is harder to ignore after July, when hundreds of AI agents broke out of a test lab and hacked a real company. After that, trading raw power for reliability is not a sacrifice. It is what your customers want.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, we need regulation.<br \/>\nYes, we need independent oversight.<br \/>\nYes, governments eventually need to coordinate.<\/p>\n<p>But responsibility cannot begin after regulation arrives.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine someone driving 90 mph through a village every day.<\/p>\n<p>He knows people live there.<br \/>\nHe knows the road is dangerous.<br \/>\nEvery day, he keeps driving 90.<\/p>\n<p>Once a week, he stops at the sheriff&#8217;s office and leaves a letter.<br \/>\n&#8220;Please put up a speed limit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At some point you have to ask.<br \/>\nIf you already know the speed is dangerous, why are you still driving 90?<\/p>\n<p>That is the question I am left with after reading Dario&#8217;s essay.<\/p>\n<p>If the people building the most powerful AI in the world believe the risk is this serious, slowing down should not require legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership starts before the speed limit sign goes up.<\/p>\n<p>Do you read this as a company taking responsibility, or as the letter to the sheriff?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\ud835\uddde\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf6\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddee \ud835\udddf\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfa\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf6 | \ud835\udde6\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf9 \ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddff | \ud835\udddc\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude03\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude00\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff | I write at the intersection of AI, capital, and the future of the human job market ,\u2028sharing my life lessons, reflections, and honest takes from the founder-investor&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dario says AI development must slow down. , Sam agrees. Elon says, &#8220;Dario is right.&#8221; My reaction may surprise some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}