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title: "Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/perplexity-co-founder-ai-safety-is-an-excuse-to-lock-down-frontier/
date: 2026-07-04
modified: 2026-07-04
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research."
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Crypto News"
tags:
  - "ai"
  - "Anthropic"
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "research"
word_count: 27
---

# Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier

Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.