Economist Joshua Gans responds to Amodei's 'Pacing the Frontier' via incentive analysis
joshgans · x · 2026-09-13
Economist and AI researcher Joshua Gans has published 'Incentive-Compatible Pacing', a detailed response to Dario Amodei's widely discussed essay 'Pacing the Frontier' on slowing the deployment of frontier AI. Gans approaches the proposal through an economics lens, arguing that any AI pacing mechanism must be incentive-compatible to actually work: without aligned incentives, governments, firms, and individuals all have motives to sidestep imposed speed limits. He reframes Amodei's frontier-pacing idea as a mechanism-design and enforcement problem, offering one of the more substantive third-party critiques of the essay.
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