DKokotajlo: real frontier pacing would slow leaders most, not be regulatory capture
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-13
Daniel Kokotajlo worries that talk of 'pacing the frontier' could become regulatory capture given distrust of AI companies — but offers a test: real capture means progress stays blindingly fast and laggards never catch up. Genuine pacing would slow leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI more than followers, making it the opposite of capture. He flags it as a hot take open to counterarguments.
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