Margaret Mitchell rejects AI 'pacing': the premise that we're on the right path is false
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-14
AI researcher Margaret Mitchell pushes back on the popular "pacing" argument for slowing frontier AI: it wrongly assumes we're unilaterally on the right path — "we're not" — so simply moving more slowly doesn't fix the underlying problems. A notable voice in the slowdown-vs-accelerate debate.
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