Pacing the Frontier: AI Insiders Just Asked Washington for a Brake Pedal. Beijing Is Building the Accelerator.

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Pacing the Frontier: AI Insiders Just Asked Washington for a Brake Pedal. You run one of roughly six organizations on earth capable of training a genuinely frontier AI model. Which brings us to Tuesday, when 1,134 employees of frontier AI companies published a statement called Pacing the Frontier, asking the US government to come and build the cartel for them. An international pacing regime that excludes China is not a pacing regime. This is a functioning capital market for frontier AI operating entirely outside American jurisdiction.