What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI
Why has it been the last few days that the calls to come to pace the frontier AI have come so loudly? The safety warnings, and lab leader messages? Let’s explore the six axes that the researchers are looking at, the incidence reports and trends, to get a better gauge on what has dominated the world’s headlines for over two weeks…
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
0:00 - The warnings that have gone omega-viral
4:23 - Six axes the researchers saw
9:32 - Why AI Might Be Becoming Harder to Control
15:06 - Amodei, China and Cooperation
18:42 - From AI Capabilities to Real-World Harm?
23:22 - The upside and the warning
We Must Pace the Frontier
https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
Adam Majmudar on scaling and the internal/external perception gap
https://x.com/MajmudarAdam/status/2098881885200081234
AI Explained — What’s Behind the Sudden Talk of Pacing AI? (extended previous video)
https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/whats-behind-of-169507775
Jacob Coxon resignation
https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843
Dan Selsam — Personal Statement on AI Risk
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQNl3SEX5IyA6d9qHjjFZN-qzGRZNFI6b63g-yu1Fy-ZYkVfCWm7i9WXRXw63m6yDB_auDuPLyQ7jBm/pub
Demis Hassabis: A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
https://demishassabis.substack.com/p/a-framework-for-frontier-ai-and-the-dawning-of-a-new-age
OpenAI: The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
Jakub Pachocki: An Alien Mind
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
Anthropic: Patterns and problems in multiagent systems
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
OpenAI: Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
Noam Brown on reasons for AI-safety concern
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2099726370356314563
Noam Brown — What Happens When AI Starts Improving AI? (The Information interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcy0xQATq0
Paul Christiano: Personal statement on joining the OpenAI board
https://x.com/paulfchristiano/status/2097733214303645729
Neel Nanda: Astra can do a concerning amount with no chain of thought
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-do-a-concerning-amount-with-no-chain-of-thought
Tomek Korbak on GPT-6 Astra monitorability
https://x.com/tomekkorbak/status/2095596839886274689
Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI—September 2026
https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026
DeepSeek engineer — I Have to Bury My Talent in Yesterday (Chinese original)
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zk0KxuLzhmMJ4LPYW_OHMA
Jacob Coxon on AI race and negotiation
https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2099954626040905834
Mo Bavarian on responsibility and AI progress
https://x.com/mobav0/status/2097507030080888864
Addy Osmani on Anthropic engineering throughput
https://x.com/addyosmani/status/2099577600159158765
OpenAI: Jalapeño inference-chip results
https://openai.com/index/jalapeno-first-results/
New York Times: For China, a Mock AI Attack on WeChat Signals a Dangerous New Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/world/asia/china-ai-attack-wechat.html
OpenAI: Accelerating antibiotic discovery with ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/accelerating-antibiotic-discovery/
David Bellamy on wet-lab bottlenecks
https://x.com/DavidRBellamy/status/2099197234772607026
Chris Rohlf on infrastructure and AI risk
https://x.com/chrisrohlf/status/2099867580668215622
BBC: Titan CEO dismissed safety warnings as baseless cries
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65998914
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