Stratechery reads Amodei's pacing proposal as a bid for political control rather than a safety measure
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Ben Thompson's 14 September piece 'Pacing the Frontier, AI's Digital Limits, AI Commissars' calls the proposal unrealistic and argues it is 'mostly geared to political control of AI.' It is the first substantive structural critique of the pacing letter from an analyst rather than a researcher, and it arrives alongside the administration pushback. Worth reading against Bengio's and Cantrill's takes, which argue the technical merits rather than the incentives.