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… AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained 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 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/
