Critics push back on Dario's pause call: slowing in the US just lets rivals close the gap
BenBajarin · x · 2026-09-12
Responding to Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay, analyst austinsemis offered a direct counterpoint: if US AI labs deliberately slow down, labs in other countries may keep up the pace and close the gap, leaving misaligned frontier AI outside US borders and beyond US control — shifting risk rather than reducing it.
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