What Quinn Slack thinks about government
Co-founder and chief executive of Amp, the AI coding-agent company spun out of Sourcegraph in December 2025, and Sourcegraph's CEO until then; writes about code search, AI coding agents and how large codebases get understood.
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6 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Quinn Slack has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAnthropic has created a dangerous, destabilizing mess by lobbying for and getting US government restrictions on models like Mythos, Fable, and GPT-5.6.
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Their wordsWe need to fight for our freedom of intelligence, the freedom from government restrictions on who can use which AI models. If we allow government to decide what level of intelligence someone can access, no matter how well intended, we’ll be less safe and forever divided.
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Our readingGovernments must not require licensing of AI model labs or approval of models before release.
Their wordsThis means that the government must not require licensing of model labs, or approval of models prior to release. Otherwise government inevitably will use that power to restrict releases to certain favored individuals and companies (as we’ve just seen) and to introduce biases.
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Our readingThe government should not be allowed to prohibit people from downloading and running open AI models.
Their wordsFreedom of intelligence also means that the government may not prohibit you from downloading and running open models.
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Their wordsThe government must not force a model lab to release a model against its wishes. If a model lab chooses to release their own model to only a few privileged people and companies (as Anthropic did with Mythos), or to keep it internal, that is their right.
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Their wordsThere’s no way to sustain a stable, democratic arrangement where government controls access to intelligence. The more powerful you think AI is, the less stable is any attempt to regulate access to intelligence.