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Nathan Lambert expects rapid AI progress without unchecked acceleration

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AI researcher Nathan Lambert says a data center slowdown after the election makes a slower-growth path increasingly likely, according to a November 6, 2026 post on X. He ties this view to the acceleration in AECI reported in a recent METR report, which he links to coding agents and inference compute changing how work gets done.

Lambert adds that this does not make further acceleration inevitable. The post is his own assessment, and the reports behind it are not quoted in the source.

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    AINathan 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.

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