Three frontier lab CEOs agree on slowing AI — a researcher lays out why implementation is brutally hard
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-13
Yuchen Jin (YuchenjUW) notes it's striking that Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman all now agree AI progress should slow. While broadly supportive of embedded third-party evaluators like METR, he raises three concerns: who evaluates the evaluators and keeps them fair and unbiased; slowing progress conflicts with frontier labs' incentives, especially ahead of IPOs; and you can only pace what you can measure — how do you define and measure something like recursive self-improvement? His verdict: the idea sounds good, but implementation seems extremely hard.
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