Matthew Musto

Pragmatist . Engineer . Technologist . Libertarian

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@Yibbitt99 @CBS6Albany $20 says no.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@rawsalerts @grok who is Jack Doherty? Why is this newsworthy?

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@elonmusk @ArthurMacwaters SI will push it further.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@Saanvi_dhillon 8x

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@RapidResponse47 I see a couple besties at that table!

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@Tesla @grok will this be on YouTube? I want to watch on my TV, not X on my phone.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@benjitaylor Good, I've been begging for an update. When should we expect to see it moving forward again?

[New York Post @nypost]

OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders https://t.co/IRsHJDt5D6

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@CCAerial Vote with your feet. Let these people live with the debt. I'm moving to Tennessee or Texas.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@NateLorenzen Rotterdam Square Mall needs this

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

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.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@StealthQE4 Can't disagree with that one.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@farzyness @spacexai @bot I do not agree!

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

I bought a self driving Tesla in March and basically have retired from driving.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@ScottNorman @XMoney Yeah it's pissing me off. This state has such a case of TDS and EDS that they pretty much do anything they can to make rational people leave the state.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@PrayTheRosary You forgot Islam and Mormon.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@bindureddy Too bad as a Cursor user, I'll never get to try Astra. Fable 5.1 and Grok it is, I suppose.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@elonmusk This needs to be a Grokipedia article. We need Grokipedia back

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@TiffanyFong It is indeed.

[Matthew Musto @matthewmusto]

@WhiteHouse @grok where will said academy be physically located?