# Pacing AI Means Going From Insanely Fast to Very Fast by Vishal Maini > "Pacing the frontier really means going from insanely fast progress to very fast progress. Exciting work is happening on critical defensive fronts: meaningful progress in alignment and interpretability research, policy proposals for preparing society for the transition, and concrete proposals for data-center security. Some of this will take months to execute, not necessarily years, but those may be months we do not have given the pace at which the frontier is advancing." > **— Vishal Maini**, *Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and complete contiguous answer:** [Palisade Research interview at 6:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S_Ay87dEy0&t=402s) — Maini develops the proposition preserved in the poster text. The transcription removes verbal filler and immediate repetition, repairs punctuation, and normalizes obvious caption errors without joining separate speakers or noncontiguous turns. - **Canonical transcript conversion:** [[research/Vishal Maini - Humanity's Machine Successor and the AI Transition|Humanity's Machine Successor — Vishal Maini on Recursive Self-Improvement and the AI Transition]] — preserves the complete source unit, speaker attribution, editorial method, and evidence boundary used for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Vishal Maini|Vishal Maini]] - [[wiki/AI Pacing|AI Pacing]] - [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] - [[wiki/AI Interpretability|AI Interpretability]] - [[wiki/Data Center Security|Data Center Security]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Pacing the frontier really means going from insanely fast progress to very fast progress. Exciting work is happening on critical defensive fronts: meaningful progress in alignment and interpretability research, policy proposals for preparing society for the transition, and concrete proposals for data-center security. Some of this will take months to execute, not necessarily years, but those may be months we do not have given the pace at which the frontier is advancing." — Vishal Maini, Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-vishal-maini-pacing-insanely-fast-very-fast ```