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PolicyTreasury Secretary Bessent compares AI CEOs seeking regulation to Hannibal Lecter

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on The Axios Show on October 3 that frontier-lab CEOs who warn of catastrophe while asking Washington for rules remind him of Hannibal Lecter: "stop me before I kill again."

Asked about Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk calling to slow the most advanced models, he said, "Well, then they should slow down," and called warnings without solutions "not leadership."

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