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Chris Olah believes that the incentives of frontier AI labs may conflict with "doing the right thing," and therefore they need to be subject to strict external ethical oversight, which sharply diverges from Dario Amodei's recent narrative framework.
The article argues that the phrase 'AI is just a tool' is a political strategy used by companies to disguise power dynamics, redistribute risk and labor, and neutralize critiques, highlighting how mandatory adoption and tracking create new norms without collective agreement.