What Nathan Lambert thinks about infrastructure
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Nathan Lambert has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe leading proponents of this new wave of open-weight fear mongering have effectively been making a falsifiable prediction — that the current open-weight models are going to cause substantial, not seen before AI harms by crippling our cyber infrastructure. Based on all the evidence I have, which I’ve unpacked above, they’re set up to be wrong.
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Their wordsI put the probability of complete extinction as being so low it isn't worth discussing, but the probabilities of AI caused disasters - e.g. cyber attacks on critical infrastructure or bio-risks - as being worth debating.
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