Reddit Skeptic: Anthropic's 'Pacing' Pledge Will Be a Few Weeks of Safety Review, Then Business as Usual
tunicamycinA · reddit · 2026-09-13
Responding to Anthropic's CEO call to slow AI model advances, a Reddit user lays out how 'pacing' will likely work in practice: companies hire an independent evaluation team, models get a few weeks of post-release safety review, then everything continues as normal. The author argues this won't meaningfully slow AI development and that the real motive is reputational risk management — a catastrophe would devastate public opinion and hurt AI progress far more than brief reviews.
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