Charlie O'Neill
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259 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6d ago
Charlie O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's really interesting to see the reaction to something that's kind of been like, I guess like linearly scaling for a long time in terms of the calls for pacing the frontier from people such as Dario and Sam.
I think the best way to view what they're actually asking for is not necessarily we're going to put a halt to capability development.
We're going to put all these stringent um checks and like, you know, first party kind of things that are slowing us down.
The best way to
View this is we are going to keep advancing the capabilities of the models.
We are just going to allocate a little bit more compute to making sure those models are safe.
Um, and then it's very interesting to see all the sell-offs and so on today.
OpenAI and Anthropic are planning on spending more compute probably than they were a few weeks ago.
Um, you know, there's rumors that OpenAI is going to allocate up to 20% of internal compute for monitoring and safety.
So, you know, as they're
Doing these training runs as they're deploying these models in the real world, things like the hugging face incident they don't want to happen again.
And so if you allocate more compute to monitoring those models as they're doing their rollouts and as they're doing inference, then you're more likely to catch it.
Anthropic is similar, and some people have suggested there's going to be a much higher than 20% figure.
Um, so when you consider that and the fact that Anthropic and OpenAI really don't want to move off their, you know, model roadmaps.
They want to keep training bigger and bigger models.
They want to keep scaling the reinforcement learning they're doing on top of these big pre-training bases.
They just have to allocate more compute to, you know, monitorability and safety research.
Then I think we might even see the the labs be even more aggressive with compute build outs and and securing compute.
Um and it's certainly not going to be a, you know, a a bearish sign for like the amount of compute the world is going to need over the next few years.
Um so that's probably the best way to view it is like, you know, capabilities will keep progressing at roughly the same rate.
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