Tech investor Bill Gurley criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal for independent evaluators with employee-like access to monitor AI development, calling the concept structurally flawed because regulators could become too closely tied to the companies they oversee. Gurley said he generally opposes regulation because it is difficult to design and vulnerable to regulatory capture, but argued that any safety regulator must have authority and accountability over the regulated company. His comments followed Amodei’s call for a slower pace of AI capability development and greater investment in risk prevention, which he reiterated at Salesforce’s Dreamforce event. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also engaged in the debate, while Okta CEO Todd McKinnon said extinction fears are possible but extreme. The discussion adds to competing proposals from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett and Elon Musk for company-led, government-coordinated or competitor-based AI safety reviews, as the industry weighs safety risks against technological competition and commercial growth.