AI Futures Project proposes concrete options for pacing the US AI frontier
eli_lifland · x · 2026-09-09
Eli Lifland and the AI Futures Project published concrete proposals for domestically pacing the US AI frontier, responding to the Pacing the Frontier open letter signed by 1,000+ frontier lab employees.
Key points:
- "Pacing" means moderating when AIs above a specified capability level are developed, primarily to reduce existential risk
- They previously outlined international coordination in AI 2040: Plan A, but argue domestic regulation may need to come first
- Domestic pacing would also slow China: US firms would offer weaker models to distill from and fewer algorithms to steal
- The authors stress these are tentative ideas meant to spark discussion, with a more battle-tested proposal to follow
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