The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) · Thursday, September 17, 2026
A discussion erupted regarding the call to "pace the frontier" of AI development, initiated by Dario Amodei and echoed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. The speakers largely panned the idea, with one arguing that the cyber and economic risks are real, but the existential risk of losing control of AI is difficult to assess and that proposed solutions like third-party monitoring are impractical.
“It's been fairly universally panned. I tend to be on the side of the people who are saying that the hostile reception is deserved.”
“Dario's stuff, on the other hand, it's hard not to disagree that the cyber risk is real. Of the three risks he lays out, the cyber risk real, the economic risk, I will all be unemployed, I think it's a little bullshit. And then the third one, we lose control of the agent's hard to assess.”
“And then the second thing is all the democratic governments have to agree and that'll be easy because we get on so well with Canada and Europe right now. And then the third thing is we have to agree with the Chinese. And that's gonna go super great.”