Zvi Mowshowitz and the AI Antitrust Waiver [Operational Drift]

About this episode

This investigation follows the quiet push for antitrust exemptions within the frontier AI industry, led by researchers like Zvi Mowshowitz. While framed as a necessary safety measure to prevent a 'race to the bottom,' the drift toward legal collusion reveals a structural shift in how accountability is being relocated. We explore the transition from competitive regulation to coordinated industry standards, examining how major labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind navigate the legal exposure of sharing evaluation results and deployment thresholds. The episode documents the tension between safety coordination and regulatory capture, questioning whether these private channels for…