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AI safety may lag behind $7 trillion race for market domination

9/27/2026

Industry insiders tell Axios that the competition for artificial intelligence supremacy among labs, firms and nations is likely irreconcilable with the drive for AI safety.

The core conflict stems from the massive financial incentives to advance the technology, which critics argue will consistently outweigh efforts to engineer a slowdown.

While chief executive officers promote self-regulation and third-party assessments to the public, the models themselves are becoming less transparent regarding their reasoning processes.

The intricate nature of these systems, coupled with the use of thousands of semi-autonomous agents, renders real-time oversight extremely challenging.

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