Nathaniel Whittemore
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204 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
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Nathaniel Whittemore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.
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Basically, his view is that pacing is the responsibility of individual labs, rather than a collective action.
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And that view hinges on two core ideas.
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First, that quote,
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People don't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.
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And two, labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.
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Emphasizing the point, Zuckerberg said that Meta had delayed the release of Muse by several months to work on safety.
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He continued.
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We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would.
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We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us.
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Essentially, Zuckerberg is saying that the individual incentives and consequences that are already in place are enough to force AI labs to work on alignment and to pace the frontier correctly, rather than needing some exogenous government enforced slowdown.
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Now, Zuckerberg did support the idea of independent evaluators and advisors as a matter of best practice rather than regulation.
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He claimed that Meta has already engaged outside evaluators, not because it's required of them, but because it helps produce better work.
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Finally, he concluded committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self improvement is one of the best ways to ensure that we develop this technology safely.
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Meta has made this commitment, and other labs can do it.
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this as well.
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I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power.
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This is within our power to do.
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It's carefully worded, but basically this whole thing says, Come on guys, let's please stop with the theatrics.
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And a lot of people frankly found this a breath of fresh air.
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