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Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is a journalist, author of The Infinity Machine and The Power Law, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Circuit updated August 4, 2026
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“When the Trump administration realized the power of mythos, they all of a sudden said, 'Wait, okay, we need to control this.' And they essentially requisitioned from anthropic the decision-m authority over who gets it when.”
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“you've just given the machine a survival instinct. And I think that's correct. These machines will be smarter than us. They will want to survive.”
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“I 100% agree with you that investors should be thinking about the prospect of government intervention in AI.”
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“the door is actually open to a dialogue with China about preventing bad guys doing bad stuff with AI”
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