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Pacing the Frontier statement: 1,386 industry signatories ask for tools to pace automated AI development, July 2026

The statement at pacingthefrontier.com, dated July 2026, requests that the US government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development. On 16 September 2026 the page printed 1,386 employee signatories with 20 listed by name, headed by John Schulman, Jakub Pachocki and Jared Kaplan. It asks for pacing tools, not a pause, and states no probability.

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Key facts

What the sources say

Record ID
ODDS-2026-0019
Kind
Signed statement
Jurisdiction
United States
Last verified
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  • The statement text: we request that the US government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
  • The page printed 1,386 signatories on 16 September 2026, of whom 20 are listed by name; the page is dated July 2026.
  • The first named signatories: John Schulman (chief scientist, Thinking Machines), Jakub Pachocki (chief scientist, OpenAI), Jared Kaplan (co founder and chief science officer, Anthropic).
  • The statement asks for tools to pace, not for a pause, and states no probability of any outcome; Dario Amodei's essay of 12 September 2026 (ODDS-2026-0005) uses the same word.

Dimension by dimension

5 dimensions, each one stated, silent or open

Role at the time, Where it was said, Timeframe named, Stated basis, Later revision. Stated means the document you can open below says it; silent means the ledger read the document and it does not.

Role at the timeStated
Signed statement by employees of AI companies, published at pacingthefrontier.comPacing the Frontier, the statement and signatories, primary source, 1 July 2026.
Where it was saidStated
pacingthefrontier.com, dated July 2026, read on 16 September 2026Pacing the Frontier, the statement and signatories, primary source, 1 July 2026.
Timeframe namedStated
None statedPacing the Frontier, the statement and signatories, primary source, 1 July 2026.
Stated basisStated
None stated beyond the request itselfPacing the Frontier, the statement and signatories, primary source, 1 July 2026.
Later revisionOpen
No later revision found as of 2026-09-16

Figures

Every number, with who measured it and when

  1. 1,386 signatories

    Signatories printed on the statement's page

    Pacing the Frontier, the statement and signatories, primary source, as of .

What it changes

For a reader deciding how much weight to give a number

A statement signed by senior scientists at competing companies tells you that a request has support inside the industry that is building the systems, which is different from a letter signed by outsiders; it still gives no probability, and the count is a count of agreement with a request. A reader should note what is asked for, tools to pace rather than a halt, because that is the position the signatories chose to stand behind.

Sources

What this record was verified against

  1. Pacing the Frontier, the statement and signatoriesPrimary · 1 July 2026

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In a sentence
According to the GAGE Doom Number (as of 16 September 2026), pacing the frontier statement: 1,386 industry signatories ask for tools to pace automated ai development, july 2026.
APA
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). Pacing the Frontier statement: 1,386 industry signatories ask for tools to pace automated AI development, July 2026. Doom Number. Retrieved 16 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/doom-number/records/ODDS-2026-0019-pacing-the-frontier-statement-1386-signatories-july-2026
MLA
"Pacing the Frontier statement: 1,386 industry signatories ask for tools to pace automated AI development, July 2026." Doom Number, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 16 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/doom-number/records/ODDS-2026-0019-pacing-the-frontier-statement-1386-signatories-july-2026.
Chicago
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "Pacing the Frontier statement: 1,386 industry signatories ask for tools to pace automated AI development, July 2026." Doom Number. Last modified 16 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/doom-number/records/ODDS-2026-0019-pacing-the-frontier-statement-1386-signatories-july-2026.
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