Frontier lab leaders may be safest for ASI only if they do not want to win first
BlackHC · x · 2026-07-27
- BlackHC says Geoffrey Irving’s take sounds plausible: the people “worthy” to build ASI may be the ones who don’t want to be first.
- The quoted passage argues that leaders at frontier labs are highly competitive, each wants to be first to build ASI, and each believes it is safest if they win the race.
- It also notes that while coordination among a small number of frontier labs is not impossible, each lab still has a unilateral slowdown button that can affect the whole race.
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