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This situation creates an impossible legal bind for AI leaders
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Sam just described a problem with no legal solution. If the frontier labs agree to slow down AI development together, that's a cartel. Antitrust law has a name for competitors coordinating to restrict output. It's the thing the Sherman Act exists to punish. A joint agreement to pace model releases checks every box, and the motive doesn't matter. The law treats restricted frontier AI capability the same as restricted oil barrels. This has actually happened before. In 2019 the DOJ opened an…
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Sam Altman (@sama) on the Hugging Face incident: "This is the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally. I've been a little surprised that more people don't feel it so viscerally. We paused training. We have to figure out how to secure our sandboxing in a world of multiple zero days being chained together. We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around these new capability levels. And trying to figure out how we do that in a way that does not feel like regulatory capture for anyone and also does not feel like collusion among the frontier labs." (July 28, 2026)