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Dario Amodei's push for globally coordinated AI safety measures has become a flashpoint in the industry, and TechCrunch's latest analysis asks whether the debate is genuinely about preventing harm or quietly about who gets to control AI's trajectory. Critics of the Anthropic CEO's position argue that sweeping safety mandates, however well-intentioned, risk cementing the dominance of a handful of frontier labs while strangling open-source development. The piece reframes the safety conversation as a power struggle dressed in technical language, where the real stakes are regulatory capture, competitive advantage, and the centralization of a world-shaping technology.