Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs

AI lab leaders, including Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei, publicly advocate for "pacing the frontier" to allow time for AI safety measures to keep up with capability advances, yet their actions contradict these statements—they have continued releasing state-of-the-art models and pursuing recursive self-improvement rather than slowing development. The author argues that these public safety concerns should be disregarded as the labs' behavior demonstrates their true priority is advancing capabilities as quickly as possible, not managing AI risks responsibly.