Open-source camp on lab pacing: the world won't accept superintelligence owned by two companies
willcb · x · 2026-09-13
Will responds to pro-open-source knee-jerk reactions to frontier labs' pacing statements, arguing the labs' hands are forced: the world doesn't want a super-fast-takeoff superintelligence owned by two companies, so intelligence will commoditize at the pace society can absorb, gated on alignment consensus. Chris Albon distills it: "the labs will build Mac and Windows, the rest of us are building Linux."
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