Chamath Palihapitiya

Jeffries Smeared the American Men Who Signed Hakeem Jeffries spent September demanding that Congress slow Super Intelligence before a bill was even in front of the House. A forced American slowdown is the outcome Beijing and Moscow would choose for us. Inferior American Super Intelligence, and the citizens who depend on it, left under superior Chinese and Russian systems: that is the result if Democrats get their way, and it exposes them as China’s and Russia’s allies against their own country. Since the September 29 signing, he has advanced a sharper charge: the men who signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence cannot be trusted to watch their own machines. The charge does not hold. The alarm is the point. The seven are Donald Trump, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang. All are American citizens. Four were born here. All are billionaires whose fortunes sit inside the companies that train the models, build the chips, and run the platforms. Musk is the only person alive who has crossed a trillion and come back. These are not hired critics. They are the principals, with their own money and their own names on the risk. They signed four layers: internal controls on alignment and capabilities, an internal team to verify them, independent external auditors, and a board committee that must receive the reports and fix what they find. Trump called it morally binding. The signers are to meet and set the standards themselves. No moratorium. No new priesthood of regulators. No slowdown handed to Beijing. Jeffries’s answer, the day after, was that a voluntary agreement is “entirely unenforceable” and that letting the industry police itself is “not the right response” in the face of “grave harm.” He has called the moment an “AI safety crisis, not a hoax,” and the House leaving town the “height of irresponsibility.” He is not challenging an audit. He is treating this American team as the danger, and his caucus as the only hands fit to hold the remedy. The men who signed are the answer to that charge. Pichai runs Google. Amodei runs Anthropic, and signed even after demanding a slower frontier. Zuckerberg wrote the accord and circulated it. Brockman signed for OpenAI because Altman was elsewhere. Huang builds the chips the models cannot run without. Musk builds the models and the rockets. Trump put them in one room and took the signatures. Jeffries has named no rival with comparable capital, compute, or liability. A responsible critic would not have implied that the seven Americans who signed are the threat and a Democratic House the cure. He did. Ignorance presented as vigilance, arrogance presented as oversight, deception presented as concern. That is the posture the Democratic leader in the House is paid to strike. -- Joseph Fosco October 3, 2026