Dario, Elon and Altman suddenly agree on pacing the frontier — one skeptic does the whiteboard math
Rasmic · x · 2026-09-17
Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have all at once aligned on the need to "pace the frontier" of AI development.
Rasmic says he doesn't buy their stated reasons, and made a coffeezilla-style whiteboard video walking through why: the argument that the trio's synchronized slowdown push looks more like moat-building by incumbents than genuine safety concern.
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