THE TREEBEARD MOMENT
The Lord of the Rings quip Dario Amodei used — comparing Washington to slow-moving Treebeard — captures a real frustration: policy is simply not keeping up with AI’s breakneck advance. Recent moves by Anthropic, including a model that can self-improve and public calls to let regulators “ground” frontier systems, underline that the risks are no longer hypothetical. […]





