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Ben Thompson questions Anthropic's motives behind "pacing the frontier"

Thompson expands on strategic incentives behind slowing model advancement

2 Sep 21 7:21 AM · 5d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 2 of 2

Thompson elaborates that model improvement speed has created overhangs—technical and operational challenges—that frontier labs would benefit from reducing through slower development cycles. He also notes prior analysis of Anthropic's safety claims conveniently aligning with aggressive business practices like data collection and competitor sabotage.

Thompson expands on strategic incentives behind slowing model advancement
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“These problems take the form of overhangs that have formed by virtue of how rapidly models are improving; slowing model improvement would reduce the overhangs.”

Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson Stratechery technology analystDario AmodeiDario Amodei Anthropic CEOAnthropic AI frontier lab

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  1. 1 outlet Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for frontier AI labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement

    first by Stratechery, 5d ago

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