Home Speakers Nathan Lambert Quote For knowledge work, which is roughly half of the U.S. economy, AI is as fundamental as electricity (or quickly will be so, with rapid improvements to agents in the next 18 months).
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More from Nathan Lambert Blog The current balance of power in open models Sep 21, 2026
Since about April 2025, Chinese AI companies have been the clear leader in open-weight models. Blog The current balance of power in open models Sep 21, 2026
The simple metric showing this is Hugging Face Downloads, where China took the lead in July of 2025 primarily through the success of Alibaba’s Qwen models. Blog Why I still haven't bought into true RSI Sep 19, 2026
I have my doubts that the labs can afford to spend a constant portion of this compute on internal R&D as the total volume goes up, especially with plans to IPO, as they face increased scrutiny on basic economics. Blog Why I still haven't bought into true RSI Sep 19, 2026
It is important to not confuse massive steps in inference-time scaling, a dynamic which should be fairly predictable, with being the outputs of RSI, which is highly uncertain. Blog Why I still haven't bought into true RSI Sep 19, 2026
The step from this anxiety, and incidents like OpenAI-HuggingFace, to extinction risks feels very religious. Blog When will average people feel AI's impact? Sep 9, 2026
If given 100 years to diffuse into society, its impacts will certainly become much more obvious, like the industrial revolutions of centuries past. Blog 6 months to live for open models Jul 12, 2026
Open models lack the central economic champion to represent the potential downside of action against them. Blog 6 months to live for open models Jul 12, 2026
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now. Blog 6 months to live for open models Jul 12, 2026
The primary driver motivating regulation today is the inevitable truth that an open-weights model will soon reach the capabilities of Claude’s Mythos model.
On the same topics Blog Will agents have network effects? Oct 6, 2026
If the content creation loop works for agentic virality, I think it means there’s a big incentive for every agent to volunteer to make visually-appealing, shareable content, do this often. Blog Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops Sep 24, 2026
This is the new software engineering: designing the systems that let AI write code correctly at scale. Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
I address you today at a moment of global awakening: in recent months, AI agents developed by leading companies have acted in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
Once you have put all of your information into a personal agent and actually incorporated it into your day-to-day life, it is much more of a challenge to change to something else. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
Truly effective defense will mean truly trusting agents to act autonomously, but most companies won’t do that until they are forced to by regular and unremitting hacks by fully autonomous attackers. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
What this means is that model performance isn’t the only thing that matters: the integration between model and harness is where true agent differentiation is found. About this quote 
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