If they were really worried about the models of the future, they should be accelerating their hardening efforts. They should be trying to speed up progress as much as possible so that all vulnerabilities can be patched before China gets there.

There's a world where the labs WANT Open Source AI to cause a disaster.

Pacing the frontier just means giving bad actors an opportunity to create an AI disaster which would force an extreme response by governments. Which they seem to be begging for.

Dario's big scary example was AI that can hack the internet. Why aren't the labs calling on the government to help harden everything? Why are Anthropic's Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak still commercial endeavours?

To me, the only real risk of AI is hacking. Why all of this commotion about existential risk? Seems like a distraction.

Hacking the internet includes things like "hacking banks", "hacking power plants", "hacking water treatment plants", and "hacking cars". How about "hacking vote counting machines"?

Hardening everything is in fact part of the answer. Getting stuff disconnected from the internet that shouldn't be connected is also part.