Plinz: No one will pause AI — the real goal is keeping capable models away from the public
nptacek · x · 2026-09-18
Plinz argues that no big tech company or government is planning to stop or pause AI; frontier development will proceed as a matter of course. What many are actually aiming at, he says, is keeping capable AI models out of the hands of the general public — a pointed take on the trend of concentrating frontier capabilities while restricting public access.
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