Expert takes Sep 3, 2026

This week · published September 2

Zvi Mowshowitz ranks today differently than we do.

He has run an AI weekly for years, tracking frontier lab releases and safety questions item by item, with no commercial stake in any lab. On the dispute in item 1 above, his call was "Playing with fire is also my read. The house has not burned down." (@TheZvi, 09-02), which matches where we landed: a dispute, not an incident. But in a separate post he said plainly that "Today still has to be Fable 5.1 Model Card Day though." (@TheZvi, 09-02) He thinks the most important thing today is the item we ranked second, not the item we ranked first. We are leaving our order where it is, for this reason: readings on model capability arrive every week, while "no institution has the standing to verify" is something supporters and opponents said out loud together for the first time this year. The disagreement is worth recording, and you can pick a side yourself.