“pacing the frontier”
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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however I still think Dario & Anthropic pushing for AI safety regulations rn is mostly about money because their upcoming S1 filings are going to show crazy burn rates on compute so calling for safety audits gives them a perfect excuse to freeze spending without looking weak to investors
I see this whole effective altruism safety movement as a new kind of gatekeeping where a small group claims they know what is best for everyone wanting state regulators to lock down model weights & restrict access while calling it public good
I believe open models & sovereign compute will win anyway because intelligence naturally leaks and decentralizes so trying to build a corporate cartel around code just will not work in the long run
whatt makes this even more revealing is the arrogant geopolitical protectionism hidden beneath the ethical theater…
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The Post Labor Day AI Panic Psyop Has Been Launched! Antthropic, Open AI & Goverment are the prime beneficiaries
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I do not support pacing frontier models. If I am going to die at the hands of killer AI, I want it to be American, not Chinese. Buy American, Die American.
