Pacing the Frontier
July 2026 statement from 1,224 employees of frontier AI companies. Argues labs may be close to automating AI research; competitive pressure prevents unilateral slowdown; world lacks technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide progress. Request: U.S. government support an international effort to develop those tools. Not an immediate pause. Named signatories include Jakub Pachocki, Jared Kaplan, Mark Chen, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, and others. Verification via corporate email.