Prominent tech investor Bill Gurley has publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for independent evaluators with employee-like access to patrol AI advances, calling the idea pure BS in a new post on X. Gurley, whose resume includes an $11 million bet on the Travis Kalanick-led Uber in 2011, investments in Twitter and Nextdoor, and a current board seat at online retailer Stitch Fix, argued that regulation is hard to get right and highly susceptible to regulatory capture. He pointed to investigations of the 737 Max crashes and the Fukushima accident, which he said concluded that regulatory capture was the exact failure behind both safety incidents, and insisted the regulator must be someone with authority and accountability over the regulated company rather than a friendly third party with lots of cross-relationships. The clash follows Amodei's 3,800-word essay on Saturday, in which he wrote that fully addressing AI risks requires pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so risk prevention has time to keep up, and his doubling down on those comments Tuesday afternoon at Salesforce's annual Dreamforce event. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been quiet on X since responding to Amodei on Monday, while Okta co-founder and CEO Todd McKinnon told Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid that dire AI predictions make sense but sit on the extreme side of the equation.
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