Amodei's 'pace the frontier' plan unrealistic, Stratechery says

Stratechery's assessment centers on a single figure: Dario Amodei, who wants to pace the frontier of AI development. The publication does not treat this as a neutral technical idea. It calls the proposal unrealistic and reads it as geared mostly to political control of AI.

That framing matters because it shifts the question from whether frontier AI can be slowed to who would hold the lever if it were. No mechanism, timeline, or authority is described in the body, leaving the political reading as the publication's own characterization rather than a documented plan.

The stakes, on this reading, rest on whether pacing the frontier is treated as a safety measure or as a governance claim. The outcome hinges on which framing prevails — and, by implication, on who would decide the pace. That is Stratechery's read, not a stated fact about Amodei's intent.