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The Economics and Politics of Pacing the Frontier

Byrne Hobart · 14 Sept 2026

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  1. One live possibility is that a deliberately slower pace of releases would still feel like an acceleration from the previous pace of AI improvement
  2. The problem with that view is that models have more pricing power when they're literally the best tool for some specific job.
  3. that doesn't have to persist long for AI to join the ranks of systems that are important enough that there's someone senior in the government who's responsible for regulating them.

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