Pacing the Frontier: a research agenda for deliberately slowing AI development
CharlesD353 · x · 2026-09-22
Sharing the thread on Tyler Cowen's RSI-ban critique, Charles Dillon points to 'Pacing the Frontier: An Agenda' by Raymond Douglas, Charles Dillon, Gavin Leech, Shahar Avin, David Duvenaud et al.
The framework argues that haphazard AI pacing is already common—delayed releases for safety testing, development pauses after shocks, export controls—but isolated unilateral interventions will predictably fail or backfire. It surveys the full range of interventions moderating AI development, deployment, and diffusion, and proposes a dedicated field of pacing research: precedents are being set now, and better-designed mechanisms are urgently needed—a point that echoes Cowen's conclusion that single-tool bans like an RSI prohibition are inadequate.
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