With $7 trillion on the line, AI safety may always take a backseat to market domination

The race for AI supremacy between labs, companies and countries may be impossible to reconcile with the push for AI safety, industry insiders tell Axios. Top AI companies propose more independent oversight, but trillions of dollars in incentives to keep pushing the frontier will always loom larger, critics say. Models are sharing less about their responses, making real-time auditing extremely difficult.