Here's How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-19

With Amodei, Altman, Musk, and Hassabis all endorsing some form of AI slowdown, WIRED examines enforcement: compute controls, deployment checkpoints, independent auditors, even GPU trackers. A new report, Pacing the Frontier, A Research Agenda, by U of T researcher Raymond Douglas argues slowdown remains an unsolved problem — "we don't really understand what our options even are."

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