The speaker previously believed a responsible actor should reach AGI first, use its lead time to improve safety, and then proceed.

“used to believe that like it's an incredibly high priority to basically have way better information security and like if you're going to be trying to build agi you should be like not publishing your research because that helps other less responsible actors build agi and the whole game plan is for like a responsible actor to get to agi first and then stop”

“and burn down their lead time over everybody else and spend that lead on making it safe and then proceed and so if you're like publishing all your research then there's less lead time because your competitors are going to be close behind you um so and other reasons too but that's like one reason why i think historically people such as myself have been like pro pro secrecy even another reason of course is obviously don't want rivals to be stealing your stuff um”