How labs would actually "pace the frontier": more compute on alignment at lower margins
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-15
Responding to Gavin Baker, AccBalanced argues that Anthropic and OpenAI would "pace" the frontier by spending more time and compute on alignment, monitoring, and evals.
Frontier labs that choose to pace would likely spend slightly more on compute at the cost of lower margins — "that's it," suggesting the operational reality behind the slowdown pact is simpler than the rhetoric.
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