Pacing the Frontier: AI Insiders Just Asked Washington for a Brake Pedal. Beijing Is Building the Accelerator.

Here is a coordination problem. You run one of roughly six organizations on earth capable of training a genuinely frontier AI model. You believe, on the basis of internal data nobody outside your building has seen, that your technology is approaching a threshold that is hard to walk back once crossed. You also believe that if you stop, the other five will not, and neither will Hangzhou or Beijing, and the dangerous thing gets built anyway, only now by people who worried about it less than you did.