Pacing the frontier
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Pacing the frontier
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#2> > We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
> 1122 employees of frontier AI companies
'lets us be the gatekeepers of AI because we know better than you'
access to gpu doesnt equal to any special insights to predict future of ai. Everyone and their grandma with enough compute is putting out a model now.
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#3> We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
This is quite vague to me, what exactly do you mean?
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#4The website does not list all the comments but just around ~50 without any way to load all the ~+1100 more (1132, as of 2026-07-28 2100 UTC).
The number of em-dashes is questionable, existing in many, if not all, the comments.
> ...AI may end up progressing far more quickly than societies and states can adapt... ~ Stephanie Chan, Google
And, this is not serious at this point:
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#6> We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development. This is quite vague to me, what exactly do you mean?
It means only those vetted will be allowed to use frontier models (i.e. let's pace ourselves and not share the frontier broadly)
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#7Something people don't seem to see, and not that it's placed directly in front of you, is that pacing the release and adoption of AI is already happening.
Cost-per-token determines the economic viability of tasks that AI gets applied to. How many tokens would it take to automate all of the responsibilities of a gas station clerk? Probably more than their hourly wage. Job safe.
A slightly larger stretch, that most people attribute to profit margins (labs do not have profit margins, they have unlimited invested capital and no expectation of short-term returns), is the flat-rate billing plans of most code products. Why doesn't Anthropic have a 50x or 100x Max plan? Not that it's impossible, that it releases tokens into the workforce at a greater rate (note that their are hour, day, week limits across most of these services as well).
Hypothetical, but reasoned, and I do not expect most agree with me. If compute as a variable is inferred, this supports the incorporation a deliberate (redundant) one as well.
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#8Pacing is a really bad idea because China will not slow it down for you.
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#9Pacing is a really bad idea because China will not slow it down for you.
That's the point. Do you see any concerns by these companies? They just want to slow down pace NOW because they're losing the race
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#10The first computers were used for war.
The Harvard Mark I was used by von Neumann to calculate the physics of implosion. And then right afterwards, ENIAC was used to calculate the feasibility of the H-bomb. They called it the "Los Alamos problem."
The first computer network, SAGE (or, Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) brought together RADAR data from across the US with air-traffic control data and military flight data to detect overflight by the USSR. It could direct and control fighters to intercept those planes.
If you were sitting there, in 1955, would you have believed that computers and their networks would bring about an extraordinary age?
Imagine if von Neumann and his ilk started campaigning in 1955 to limit the development and use of computers, because surely they can only be used to make weapons, right? Right?
We were lucky to have visionary people like Joe Licklider who could look past the present and see the future. In 1963, he wrote a memo calling for an "Intergalactic Computer Network" (because he knew engineers under-delivered. So if he asked for a galaxy, at least he'd get a planet). And he gave these machines to scientists and people like the original hackers at MIT to play with.
What if Licklider had written memos about how we had to "pace" computers to make sure that other countries wouldn't be able to develop implosion technologies or systems like SAGE? What then?
Do you think you would have the jobs and the prosperity you do today?
If instead of giving away this technology, spreading it, and putting down the seeds for ARPA-net, Licklider had written memos from "concerned scientists" (and I'm sure he could have found a bunch) talking about how computers can only be used for weapons and war! So stop the proliferation of computers! We can't imagine a world with computers small enough to fit inside everything! Even wall sockets! What if your wall socket could do war?!
They didn't, because they knew there's no better way to kill a better future for all mankind than to control it.
† yes, peace. We are more peaceful than we have ever been. Humans can be a violent lot even when reluctant to kill.