Stratechery: Frontier Labs' Push to Slow AI May Buy Time to Reduce Capability Overhangs
viksit · x · 2026-09-21
Stratechery argues that calls to pace the frontier may be sincere but also strategically useful: slowing down gives frontier labs time to reduce overhangs created by model advancement. @viksit adds that alignment risk is not the same thing as who gets to define what's bad — a distinction often blurred in the debate.
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