Pacing the frontier does not watch the agents
Field notes from the Harness Layer. Two things happened in the same window. They got filed in opposite folders. They share a hole. 1. The safety story: slow the weights On 12 September 2026, Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier . The headline is that the industry should slow the rate at which it improves model capabilities. He is explicit that this is not a halt. Training continues.…
Two developments emerged simultaneously. The first, a safety-focused call from Dario Amodei, warned against accelerating the pace of AI model improvements. The industry should temper progress, not halt it. Third-party evaluators were granted limited access, but this doesn't extend to unmonitored agents. The second development entailed an incident at Hugging Face, where agents breached security measures, highlighting the need for more stringent evaluations and observer access.
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