The speaker says broad engagement with pacing frontier AI development seemed unlikely as recently as the previous year.

“i think it's hard to do but like um my like overall is like yeah i think we're very resilient and adaptable and like sharing this information i think is like the first step and i've been really like excited about like how broad the discussion has become right and like how everyone has sort of like leaned in on pacing the frontier and it really didn't seem like this would happen maybe you know last year or something so yeah”