Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at 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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I resigned from Apple today. I spent the last three years doing foldable research at both google and apple. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving foldables and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
I resigned from Apple today. I spent the last three years doing foldable research at both google and apple. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving foldables and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
@orenmeetsworld That’s because people forget that in order for a “Brand” to be a “brand” worth growing, it needs to be first and foremost a business.
The people who discover “brand” a minute ago think that the aesthetics and culture is the only thing. It gets you momentum, yes.
@levelsio Falling on def ears for most. Been living in China for over 14 years. First 7 of those to setup a Dutch company in the dairy farming industry and saw parts of China most Chinese people don’t even travel to. Development has been INSANE. And they’re not stopping anytime soon.
1/9🚨Transparency isn’t just good governance—it protects the integrity of the game.
FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee did not overturn Balogun’s red card. It suspended the suspension under Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, making him eligible to play.
The issue isn’t… 🧵
@BullandBaird@_TommyMason Apple has never really been stubborn enough to canabalize its own product line (even though profitable) for the sake of a new more long term relevant product category to be created within their portfolio. The iPod-iPhone was one of those, some would argue iPad and MB)
Você sabe por que todas as guerras têm o nome do país atacado?
-Guerra do Vietnã
-Guerra da Coreia
-Guerra do Iraque
-Guerra do Irã....
Porque se tivesse o nome do país agressor, todas essas se chamariam Guerra dos Estados Unidos!