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Asked the motivation of the companies behind the frontier models, Janet says, "Because they can." There are no meaningful constraints that these companies respect or are shaped by, #attention2026

Hugo suggests that employees are making game theoretic decisions - can I have more influence within a problematic lab than by stepping out and pressuring as a private citizen? It's not entirely clear what the right answer is in that situation.

Janet argues that the incentives need to be at the societal level, not the level of individual engineers. That begins with enforceable restrictions from governments and real penalties. New Mexico's $25b settlement with Meta shows what meaningful fights could look like. #attention2026

Tomicah Tillemann of the Pro-Human AI Coalition talks about how standards wars around mobile phones led to cooperation and eventually the GSM mobile standard. There's an opportunity to do the same around AI now, he argues. Can we build out a pro-human AI stack? #attention2026