Emad Mostaque rebuts Dario Amodei's frontier-pacing proposal: 'Intelligence isn't a crime'
QuixiAI · x · 2026-09-14
Responding to Dario Amodei's essay 'We Must Pace the Frontier', Emad Mostaque published 'Intelligence isn't a crime', arguing the proposal is well-intentioned but logically flawed.
- He says the debate rests on the flawed implicit premise that intelligence itself is a crime
- Even OpenAI's board weren't powerful enough evaluators, so external pacing mechanisms can't reliably judge frontier risk
- He argues focus should shift to understanding AI internals rather than throttling the frontier
One of the most notable counterarguments to Amodei's proposal so far.
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