“We did all the things we're legally required to do, and we found a bunch of ways around them. So now we can go ahead and do what we wanted to do anyway.”
Risky Bulletin · October 2026
On why regulation won't give frontier AI labs good security: they comply on paper and keep moving fast. He goes on to cite a management paper titled "No One Gets Credit for Solving Problems That Never Happen." The episode argues the labs' race to ship overrides any incentive to be secure.
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want to do. You can comply with the regulation,
and then you can hand on your heart full speed ahead.
Best efforts, yeah. Like, we did all the things we're legally required to do, and we found a bunch of ways around them. So now we can go ahead and do what we wanted to do anyway. So, like, there's a management paper called No One Gets Credit for Solving Problems That Never Happen.
Right.
And it's basically about this strategic culture sort of thing where if you anticipate there's going to be an issue and you correct it ahead of time so that it never happens, it's very hard to get promoted for that because you're going to have to explain, well, you see, this was going to be a huge…
What are you talking about? Exactly. Never happened.