Skeptic Asks What Stops Frontier Labs from Slowing Everyone Else While Racing Internally
4KTV · x · 2026-09-12
Responding to Dario Amodei's essay urging the industry to slow AI capability progress, Andrew Steinwold raises a pointed critique: what stops frontier labs from preaching "slow down" publicly while quietly building the most advanced capabilities for internal use? He notes that in their shoes, he'd also want to use the slowdown as cover to build a huge competitive advantage — reflecting broad distrust of the commercial motives behind safety rhetoric.
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