







1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
Pacing the Frontier
www.pacingthefrontier.comJul 29, 2026 at 5:38 PM
A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
The industry is in a panic, but it’s been claiming to want legal guardrails for years — with few meaningful results.

Pacing the Frontier
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

Who gets a seat at the table to decide if frontier AI is safe?
Dario Amodei wants independent evaluators to help “pace the frontier.” But the divide between AI safety and cybersecurity complicates a seemingly simple question: Who should do the evaluating?

Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)
A pilot assessment of rogue deployment risk at frontier AI companies. Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety
They have ideas about how to restrain wayward models, but worry that doing so will disadvantage them

Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.

Misuse of AI is brands’ top reputational threat, new survey says
The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction

Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI
The first U.S. government-commissioned assessment on catastrophic national security risks from advanced AI on the path to AGI.

Microsoft CEO responds to AI-generated Taylor Swift fake nude images
CEO Satya Nadella said "guardrails" need to be placed around AI technology.

Safety Co-Option and Compromised National Security: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Weakened AI Risk Thresholds
Risk thresholds provide a measure of the level of risk exposure that a society or individual is willing to withstand, ultimately shaping how we determine the safety of technological systems. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the first risk analyses, such as those devised for nuclear systems, cemented societally accepted risk thresholds against which safety-critical and defense systems are now evaluated. But today, the appropriate risk tolerances for AI systems have yet to be agreed on by global governing efforts, despite the need for democratic deliberation regarding the acceptable levels of harm to human life. Absent such AI risk thresholds, AI technologists-primarily industry labs, as well as "AI safety" focused organizations-have instead advocated for risk tolerances skewed by a purported AI arms race and speculative "existential" risks, taking over the arbitration of risk determinations with life-or-death consequences, subverting democratic processes. In this paper, we demonstrate how such approaches have allowed AI technologists to engage in "safety revisionism," substituting traditional safety methods and terminology with ill-defined alternatives that vie for the accelerated adoption of military AI uses at the cost of lowered safety and security thresholds. We explore how the current trajectory for AI risk determination and evaluation for foundation model use within national security is poised for a race to the bottom, to the detriment of the US's national security interests. Safety-critical and defense systems must comply with assurance frameworks that are aligned with established risk thresholds, and foundation models are no exception. As such, development of evaluation frameworks for AI-based military systems must preserve the safety and security of US critical and defense infrastructure, and remain in alignment with international humanitarian law.

Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Americans for Responsible Innovation on Twitter / X
NEW: Today ARI released a blueprint for federal AI governance, including three pillars that promote safe frontier AI development: ✅ Standards set by the government ✅ Independent assurance they are met ✅ Transparency into frontier AI development https://t.co/s2mlUP27Wm pic.twitter.com/X6IhBS9jKF— Americans for Responsible Innovation (@americans4ri) August 10, 2026

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

– Next Frontier AI
Next Frontier AI is run by SPRIND – the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. Think of SPRIND as a state-backed deep-tech fund and company builder: we deploy public money with a venture mindset, take real technical risk and are explicitly mandated to try things that can fail.

Claude Fable 5 and new safety fables
One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
