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ControlAI's Connor Leahy criticises Amodei's letter and outside AI evaluations
In an interview on the Nonzero podcast, Leahy says Amodei's letter commits to nothing and argues for banning superintelligence. The host pushes back.
On 21 October, the Nonzero podcast published an interview in which Robert Wright talks to Connor Leahy, US executive director of ControlAI, an organisation that wants to prevent the development of superintelligence. It was recorded on 16 October.
Leahy says more than ten members of Congress have backed a bill to ban it. He says that particular bill won't pass, but that he is confident some law will.
What follows is his opinion: that Dario Amodei's letter on slowing the pace of AI commits to nothing, and that outside safety evaluations are pseudoscience, done by organisations tied to the labs through funding. Wright pushes back that the models' system cards do openly describe warning signs.
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- Can Dario and Sam Be Governed? | Robert Wright & Connor LeahyAccessed 21 October 2026 · Image: Nonzero
