"Pacing the frontier" means "implementing regulatory capture". They don't necessarily care about preventing open weight models from existing, just on preventing the people with money from being able to make use of them.
replyThey would leave a competitive advantage to non-US companies.
Even if, and that's a big if, they can coordi ate with Europe Asia would still ignore them
replyLegislation that prevented US companies from using open weight models would have the desired effect. They're the only people paying for AI anyway.
replyUnfortunately for them America's share of the economic pie is a lot smaller than it was just 20 years ago.
replyThe Chinese will keep doing what they are doing, the EU has no love for Silicon Valley and the rest of the world votes with their wallet.
The important part is HOW they want to pace the frontier. Not by actuall slowing down themselves, but by having the government create expensive regulations, like having independent verifiers "verify" the models before release.
replyNow, something tells me that those verifiers would verify anything an american company in good standing with the Trump admin releases, and likely nothing else.
And obviously, since verification is so incredibly important, we can't allow models, open or not, from other non-verified companies.
Think of the profits...I mean, the kids, or something.
We could mandate an onboard chip that would safely and securely vet models, denying bad people the ability to run naughty models.
replyWe could call the chip … ClAIpper … or something
Wow, that takes me back...
replyNow I feel old.
If you read through Dario Amodei's manifesto on pacing the frontier, the only concrete action item is implementing even harsher restrictions on technology exports to China.
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