Evan Hubinger backs pacing while warning AI development is too fast
Evan HubingerAI safety researcher
On September 12, Evan Hubinger agreed with Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI while saying that development had become too fast to keep safe.
“I agree with Dario. If we are to survive, we must pace the frontier. The speed of development is quickly becoming too fast for us to keep safe.”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
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Direct X post by Evan Hubinger. The post itself is the evidence; reply content and engagement figures were not used as evidence.
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Hubinger posted after Amodei publicly called for the frontier to be paced.
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The post endorses the general pacing response while raising a broader concern about development speed.
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Why this label?
Hubinger supports pacing while criticizing the current pace not expressly regarding Anthropic’s conduct.
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