"Pace the frontier" mocked as the new "two weeks to slow the spread"
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-13
Evan Huber endorses Dario Amodei's view that AI development must slow down to stay safe, arguing the pace is becoming too fast to control.
Stewart Alsop III pushes back sharply, comparing "pace the frontier" to "two weeks to slow the spread" — a PR-crafted slogan designed to worm its way into mainstream consciousness — and hopes people remember how that turned out.
The exchange captures a real fault line in the AI community between safety-motivated slowdown advocacy and skeptics who see it as manufactured messaging.
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