Necessary According to Whom
At the UN Security Council, Dario Amodei said his company would slow down as much as necessary to make AI safe. First person plural, no threshold, and no external check written into…
A Promise Nobody Can Check
Amodei asks the industry to slow down, Altman and Musk agree within hours. No threshold, no verifier, no consequence. Non proliferation treaties have inspectors for a reason.
Mean Time to Escalate
We have spent years compressing response time. The interval between perceiving a threat and deciding to escalate is the one that should stay long.