Pacing the Frontier: A Research Agenda to Curb AI Race Incentives Beyond Blunt Slowdowns
gleech · x · 2026-09-23
Gavin Leech and 20 co-authors released Pacing the Frontier: An Agenda on pacing.tech, reframing the debate: rather than bluntly slowing the frontier, design mechanisms that curtail the incentives to race too fast.
- Scope: "pacing" covers all interventions moderating AI development, deployment, and diffusion — safety-test release delays, post-shock pauses, export controls.
- Core claims: haphazard pacing is already happening; isolated unilateral moves will predictably fail, and poorly executed interventions can backfire.
- Precedents: today's choices set norms for higher-stakes cases, so they deserve deliberate design.
- Proposal: build a dedicated field of pacing research to systematically evaluate tradeoffs of each intervention instead of one-off proposals.
Related event: Researchers Propose Agenda for Slowing the AI Frontier(4 posts)→
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