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.
We Must Pace The Frontier
Dario Amodei has a new essay that finally says the thing: We Must Pace the Frontier, naming his call after the Pacing the Frontier letter lab employees signed in July.
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.
The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
Slow AI is smooth AI, smooth AI is fast AI
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.
Sayash Kapoor on Twitter / X
What does it mean to pace the frontier? Over the last month, @random_walker and I have analyzed the loss-of-control incidents at AI companies to understand what technical and policy interventions can improve safety and what companies should do to pace the frontier. The result… pic.twitter.com/HB9dMZWbjy— Sayash Kapoor (@sayashk) September 14, 2026
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.
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
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.
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…
