Diogo Almeida: the 'pace the frontier' pledge is a sleight of hand

‘They are saying that we actually want to keep doing the thing that looks dangerous because it does dangerous things’

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ALMEIDA: "And this whole pace the frontier discussion I think is, like, a very narrow focus because it assumes that everyone needs to do more RLVR, right? Which, um, like I obviously don't think I need to do more RLVR on our models. Mm-hmm. You know, I think zero is the optimal amount for our shaping. Right? Like, come on. Yeah. Uh, you know, so, um, it- it's really I think a bit of a sleight of hand where they are saying that we actually want to keep doing the thing that looks dangerous because it does dangerous things. You know, like people say, like, "Oh, maybe the sandboxing was a problem," or whatever else. Um, yeah, I mean, obviously it is, and they could have easily solved that, right? But they chose not to because the more things you let the models do in this do anything category, the more powerful it is, right? So, uh, like th- there, I think there's some, like, disillusion of responsibility there on, like, things that by design or non-design they're trying to make is just an assumption. You know, we must do RLVR and not just we must do it, we must do more and more and more, um, with giving the models, like, the power to do powerful, you know, do anything they want in the middle 'cause that teaches them to be powerful outside of it, and we don't want to limit those things well because it'll make it slightly less powerful on those things. Um, so, like, if you assume all of that, they're like, "Oh, yeah- That's a logical conclusion ... we're heading into a dangerous world, guys." Right. Like, everyone is gonna be doing this, and this, this is the only way to make AI sick. So, um- So basically it's like, it's like it, these are all internally consistent, but actually starts from a premise that has alternatives if you- Of course. Of course"

Source: Latent Space · Sep 21, 2026 · 113s clip