AI Safety Concerns Used to Restrict Frontier Research, Says Perplexity Co-Founder

2026-07-06

Perplexity AI co-founder Andy Konwinski argues that AI safety discussions are being used as a pretext to limit access to frontier AI research. He cited Anthropic's Fable 5 incident as an example of private labs potentially controlling research.

Source: Decrypt

Reported by VERA Newswire.