AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic has sparked debate over AI development pace. CEO Dario Amodei proposes "pacing the frontier" — slowing AI progress through third-party evaluations and safety standards across democratic nations — but critic Stuart Russell argues safety requirements must be set first, not as an afterthought to gradual progress.
A curb ramp missing from a digital map illustrates why maintenance work deserves recognition equal to invention. Society celebrates technological creation but overlooks the ongoing care—repairs, corrections, documentation—that keeps systems accurate, safe, and accessible. This bias toward novelty over maintenance has distorted which work receives respect, though most of what makes the world livable depends on repair and attention to detail rather than disruption.