Frontier lab insider slams AI pacing proposals: detached from reality, over-focused on RSI

sjgadler · x · 2026-09-09

Replying to AI pacing proposals by Peter Wildeford and others, @aidanclark says they're thoughtful but "clearly written by people far from the details of frontier AI labs in a harmful way": abstracting over key difficulties, over-focusing on RSI, and underfocusing on real-world details. sjgadler asks for specifics and wishes an 'OAI take on pacing' existed.

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