Harvard Kennedy School Researcher Critiques Dario Amodei's AI Slowdown Essay
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-09-25
Harvard Kennedy School researcher Stephen Casper published a systematic critique of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent essay calling for a slowdown of AI, breaking down "the good, the bad, and the very very precarious."
- He credits Amodei for "taking a stand" — a CEO publicly engaging on AI pacing matters
- But he identifies key missteps and outstanding questions, arguing the essay's overall position is precarious
A representative critique from the AI safety academic community of a frontier lab CEO's pacing argument.
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