# Nathan Lambert expects rapid AI progress but not toward unchecked acceleration

> Original title: With the data center slowdown coming after the election, I find this post increasingly likely. There’s way more incentive in a path that ...

- Source: Nathan Lambert
- Published: 2026-11-06T22:00:26.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/fgbnt8xlivqqhj40ovi6h1z0r
- Original: https://x.com/natolambert/status/2118825864494235964

## Summary

Nathan Lambert says a data center slowdown after the election makes a slower-growth path increasingly likely. He links this view to the acceleration in AECI from a recent METR report, arguing that coding agents and inference compute are changing how work gets done. He adds that this does not make further acceleration inevitable.

## Post

With the data center slowdown coming after the election, I find this post increasingly likely. There’s way more incentive in a path that seems eminently doable. I consider this in line with the acceleration in AECI from the recent METR report. Coding agents and inference compute changes how we work — giving an acceleration in our battle against scaling laws’ exponentials. It doesn’t mean more accelerations are inevitable. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/robotic/p/i-expect-rapid-progress-but-not-towards?r=68gy5&utm_medium=ios