Alex Chalmers warns vague 'pacing' calls could hand governments control with no plan for what follows
chalmermagne · x · 2026-09-20
Alex Chalmers dissects the July open letter 'Pacing the Frontier' (1,300+ frontier lab employees) in a Cosmos Institute essay: signatories like Dario Amodei, Dawn Song, John Schulman and Ilya Sutskever hold fundamentally different visions of what a slowdown mechanism should look like, yet share one underspecified slogan. His core argument: pacing advocates may convince governments of frontier AI's exceptional risk 'only to lose all control over what happens next.'
Related event: Internal Divisions Cast Doubt on 1,300-Employee Plea to Slow Frontier AI(2 posts)→
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