In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.
Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier
The most important open letter in years dropped yesterday.
Pacing the Frontier
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
Four Futures
We are in a moment where the future is both wildly exciting and highly uncertain. The future state and greatest opportunities are likely determined by the axes: rate of advancement and the openness of the frontier models.
Forms Upon the Frontier: Folk Life and Folk Arts in the United States (Monograph Series, Vol. XVI, No. 2, April 1969)
Good condition. (folklore, frontier life) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Two questions from the Jagged Frontier
A non-exhaustive list of questions that I do not really see discussed as much as I think they probably deserve to be discussed.
Pace Layers 02025 Annual Journal
Long Now’s annual print journal explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment through essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal takes its name and shape from Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s pace layers framework — a tool for thinking about how civilizations work. [Learn more about Pace Layers](https://longnow.org/pacelayers/)
Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models
Our most up-to-date measurements of the time horizons for public frontier language models.
The Closing of the Frontier — Tanya Verma
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that much that is distinctive about America was shaped by the existence of free land to the West where anyone could start over, and that this condition infused America with its characteristic liberty, egalitarianism, rejection of feudalistic hierarchy, self-sufficiency, and ambition.
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.
How are we writing the future of humanity?
Consciousness spinning
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
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.comWeekend reading: "Long Haul" by Myles Horton, have a feeling it's going to be a real banger. (on the Highlander Folk School for social change) highlandercenter.org/product/the-long-haul-an-auto…
