A critic says the “Pacing” letter is really a company-and-country coordination problem
neil_chilson · x · 2026-07-29
- The post reacts to the “Pacing” letter and says it is odd that the document was framed as an employee letter.
- The author argues the real collective-action tension is not between employees, but between companies and countries that may or may not want the ability to slow frontier AI development.
- It also notes that OpenAI and Anthropic later endorsed the letter at the corporate level, and asks why they didn’t lead it from the start.
- The poster speculates that starting with employees may reduce antitrust-liability risk, though they say that explanation is not very satisfying.
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