All Three Major AI Companies Now Want to Slow Down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" minutes before recording, arguing that AI is now building AI, that the OpenAI Hugging Face swarm showed what a more capable swarm could do, and that frontier labs should deliberately slow capability gains so safety work can keep up, without ever falling behind China. Nick and Jack dig into his three-step roadmap of embedded evaluators, coordination among democratic labs and a global agreement, then argue over whether existential risk needs receipts, why regulation tends to kill open source, whether it is easier to destroy than…
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