Pacing the frontier to reduce catastrophic and existential risk is about the frontier of absolute capabilities, not the frontier of what’s sold to the public. We don’t want the labs to rush to train super-Astra- or Mythos-class capabilities that no one knows how to control or align, but releasing a new Opus or Sonnet (which we can be pretty sure is not going to destroy the world) is fine.
Pacing the frontier to reduce catastrophic and existential risk is about the frontier of absolute capabilities, not the frontier of what’s sold to the public. We don’t want the labs to rush to train super-Astra- or Mythos-class capabilities that no one knows how to control or align, but releasing a new Opus or Sonnet (which we can be pretty sure is not going to destroy the world) is fine.