Nat Lambert: 'normal technology' view is about pace of progress, not denying agent swarms
natolambert · x · 2026-10-20
Responding to Kevin Roose's reporting on AI agent attacks, researcher Nathan Lambert clarifies that the 'normal technology' view (Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor) isn't claiming wild scenarios like swarms can't happen — it's a debate about the pace and type of progress, in a context where closed-model safeguards blocked defensive work.
Related event: Roose and Lambert clash over Hugging Face agent incident(5 posts)→
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