Who Paces the AI Frontier?

The AI danger that matters most? Falling behind China.

A nuclear-style freeze on AI development would just hand the advantage to Beijing.

America’s real AI threat isn’t defeat by China — It's becoming it

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently argued that artificial intelligence development may need to slow down for safety reasons, while also urging tighter restrictions on U.S. chips and technology to prevent China from pulling ahead. Meanwhile, OpenAI is explicitly asking the U.S. federal government to impose mandatory national safety rules on frontier AI, and Anthropic’s policy […]

Real co-operation on AI is likely to elude China and America

Mutual suspicions run too deep

Who Paces the AI Frontier?

Dario Amodei wants to give society time to deliberate about artificial intelligence. I am not qualified to judge the merits of the head of Anthropic’s proposal, made in his...

View: Pacing the frontier is more about business models than AI models

Reed’s viewDario Amodei and other frontier AI lab leaders may care deeply about AI safety, but calls to “pace the frontier” also serve their financial interests.As Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public and try to convince investors they can one day be massively profitable, spending billions on a race to grow the biggest and most capable models may not be the best sales pitch.Even if large language models progress very little, they already do…