Like climate panic, AI panic is not detached from real dislocations (Are humans losing contact with themselves, one another, the real? Frontier Model Versus Safe Operating SpaceAt the heart of this apocalyptic formation is a new object of fear and ambition: the frontier model. In July, the influential paper “Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety” defined frontier AI as “highly capable foundation models that could possess dangerous capabilities sufficient to pose severe risks to public safety.” That same month, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launched the Frontier Model Forum. In September, the British government renamed its Foundation Model Taskforce the Frontier AI Taskforce, explicitly linking the frontier to systems said to pose serious risks to public safety and security.