If an AI Lab Halted Frontier LLM Capabilities Research, Would Progress Slow or Speed Up?
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-07-30
AI safety researcher Geoffrey Irving posed a thought-provoking question on X: If one of the major AI labs completely shut down its frontier LLM capabilities research, would the overall progress of the AI industry slow down or actually speed up in log-expectation?
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