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.
The Pacing of the Frontier
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.
The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
Slow AI is smooth AI, smooth AI is fast AI
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/)
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
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
AI Pacing Agreements: Legal Issues and Potential Strategies to Manage Them | Insights | Holland & Knight
AI pacing agreements aim to slow frontier AI development for safety but raise major antitrust risks and require careful structuring, oversight and safe harbors.
Announcing Pace Layers
The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.
Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman
The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.
Pace Layers and AI Integration - The Phoenix Architecture
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello to another tree, so getting him and his peers to act fast enough is nearly impossible.
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.
Our Duty - shepherds in the future - sneptech writings
walking the path of acceleration means sticking together
Weekend 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…
