Anthropic's slowdown logic questioned: if China distilled its models, slowing down is pointless

rao2z · x · 2026-09-14

A skeptical take on Anthropic's push to slow down frontier AI: if, as Anthropic claims, China's progress came mainly from distilling its models, then Anthropic slowing down should equally slow China — making its concern about Chinese competition hard to square with its advocacy of pacing.

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