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@j_asminewang

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Jasmine Wang (verified) @j_asminewang                                  X.com

It's hard to overstate how dangerous speeding towards RSI is.

That's why I + 1385 others signed the pacing the frontier petition asking the US government to pace AI development. I'm guesstimating this is ~8-10% of all frontier lab employees.

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Jacob Coxon (verified) @hilberts... · 9/8/26
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improvi... [cut off]

7:11 PM · 9/9/26 · 58K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Jasmine Wang about signing a 'pacing the frontier' petition asking the US government to pace AI development, quoting a resignation post from an Anthropic pretraining researcher.

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Vishal Maini @v_maini · 5h

As former comms staff at a frontier lab, I'll point out that only 5 of 12 interviews on frominside.ai are from current employees.

Meanwhile 1,386 current frontier lab employees (~7%) signed the Pacing the Frontier letter. Even that number likely understates safety concern within the labs.

Everything you're seeing in the public discourse should be understood as muted relative to the internal reality. I can say this with confidence: I was on the team responsible for making sure of this.

I'm used to being behind the scenes and I've never done an interview before, but it felt important to bring more honesty to the conversation.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Vishal Maini, a former frontier-lab comms staffer, about the frominside.ai interview series and the Pacing the Frontier letter signed by 1,386 current frontier lab employees, arguing public discourse understates internal safety concern.

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Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo

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Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo · 4h
Yeah. Because I don't trust the companies, I am a bit worried that all this talk of pacing the frontier will result in regulatory capture, BUT if that happens we will be able to tell because it'll be obvious that the frontier isn't actually being paced because other companies aren't catching up to it and the overall pace of progress will still be blindingly fast. An actual pacing of the frontier would be the opposite of regulatory capture because it would slow down the leading companies like anthropic and openai more than it would slow down the laggards. (This is more of a hot take than is usual for me, I'd want to reflect more, open to ideas and counterarguments)

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roon @tszzl · 4h
for the skeptics in government and elsewhere: "pacing the frontier" will compress the margins of the frontier labs. it is a heavy cost imposed asymmetrically on model developers with the strongest AIs in America. by its nature, it would... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Daniel Kokotajlo's quote-reply on 'pacing the frontier' and regulatory capture: real pacing would hurt leading labs more than laggards, so capture would be detectable by the frontier not actually slowing. Quotes roon's post that pacing imposes asymmetric costs on the strongest US labs.

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