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The Slowdown Docket
As of September 2026 this ledger holds 20 records across 5 jurisdictions: 12 verified at a primary source, 6 reported by a secondary source, 1 announced with no document yet, 0 searched and absent, and 1 open question. By kind: bill 3, probe 1, hearing or briefing 1, letter or statement 6, lab commitment 2, executive action 1, foreign government response 2, counter position 3, open question 1.
- 20
- Records
- 12
- Verified at the source
- 1
- Announced or absent
- 1
- Open questions
5 jurisdictions, 21 primary sources
6 more reported, primary not reached
1 announced with no document, 0 searched and absent
Posed, sourced, not answered
As of 16 September 2026 the GAGE Slowdown Docket records 12 verified instruments, 6 reported at a secondary source, 1 announcements without a document, 0 absences and 1 open questions, across 5 jurisdictions. Counts are a floor, not a ceiling: an instrument the ledger has not found is not on it.
Why this ledger exists
A proposal is a stage, a scope and a list of what it would not do
Most coverage of the pause calls collapses a letter, a bill, a probe and a lab's own commitment into one story. They bind different people, sit at different stages and require different things. The docket keeps them apart: an open letter binds nobody, an introduced bill binds nobody yet, a committee's letter compels an answer by a date, a lab's pause binds the lab for as long as the lab says.
Every item also states what it would not do, because that is the part a compliance lead has to explain upward: the Pacing the Frontier statement does not ask for a pause; OpenAI's two week reinforcement learning pause was not a development halt; a kill switch duty on a developer does not stop a run that has already left the sandbox.
Every row is fetched at its source where the source could be reached, and says so where it could not. The verdict language is the discipline: a reader learns five words once and never has to guess what a row claims.
Verified
The document exists. The ledger fetched it at its publisher and quotes it.
Reported, primary not reached
A reliable secondary source carries it, and the primary document could not be reached. Printed with this label, never as verified.
Announced, no document yet
A body has said it will act. No document exists yet, so the row records the statement and nothing more.
Absent
The ledger searched and found no instrument. The record says where it looked and when.
Open question
No settled answer exists. The ledger poses the question, links the live debate, and does not answer it.
The grid
What the documents state, and where they are silent
For each of the seven dimensions, how many docket items state it from the instrument's own text and how many leave it open.
Binding
12 stated, 1 silent, 1 open, 6 reported.
Stage
11 stated, 0 silent, 2 open, 7 reported.
What it would require
12 stated, 0 silent, 1 open, 7 reported.
What it does not do
12 stated, 1 silent, 1 open, 6 reported.
Who is for it
11 stated, 0 silent, 8 reported.
Who is against it
8 stated, 1 silent, 8 open, 2 reported.
Next step on the record
6 stated, 7 silent, 1 open, 6 reported.
Side by side
Every jurisdiction, counted by verdict and by kind
United States
14 records
- Verified
- 9
- Reported
- 4
- Announced
- 1
- Absent
- 0
- Open question
- 0
3 bill, 1 probe, 1 hearing or briefing, 5 letter or statement, 2 lab commitment, 2 counter position.
United Kingdom
1 record
- Verified
- 0
- Reported
- 1
- Announced
- 0
- Absent
- 0
- Open question
- 0
1 executive action.
European Union
1 record
- Verified
- 0
- Reported
- 1
- Announced
- 0
- Absent
- 0
- Open question
- 0
1 foreign government response.
China
1 record
- Verified
- 1
- Reported
- 0
- Announced
- 0
- Absent
- 0
- Open question
- 0
1 foreign government response.
Global
3 records
- Verified
- 2
- Reported
- 0
- Announced
- 0
- Absent
- 0
- Open question
- 1
1 letter or statement, 1 counter position, 1 open question.
Figures of record
Every number on this ledger, with who measured it and when
9 figures, each one printed in the unit its publisher used, beside the publisher and the date it was true. Nothing here is summed across sources, converted between units, or forecast.
- 1,386 signatories
Signatories printed on the statement site. Pacing the Frontier, a statement by employees of frontier AI companies
Pacing the Frontier, the statement and signatory list, primary source, as of .
- 31,810 signatories
Signatories printed on the letter page. Pause Giant AI Experiments, the Future of Life Institute open letter of 2023
Future of Life Institute, Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter, primary source, as of .
- 16 questions
Questions posed to OpenAI. Senator Hawley's subcommittee investigation into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face incident
Senator Josh Hawley, Chairman Hawley launches investigation into OpenAI for hacking, existential risk of AI products, primary source, as of .
- 115 million pounds
Funding for the two programmes under the Defence Investment Plan. The UK written ministerial statement of 7 September 2026, Artificial intelligence update
TheyWorkForYou, Written ministerial statement HCWS314, Artificial intelligence update, Kanishka Narayan, secondary source, as of .
- 30 minutes
Window to clear an alert before responders pause the activity. OpenAI's two week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models
TNW, OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability, secondary source, as of .
- 20 percent
Monitoring overhead as a share of the inference compute being monitored. OpenAI's two week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models
P.K. Sharma, OpenAI Astra Critical cyber threshold: what the two August posts say, secondary source, as of .
- 23 questions
Numbered questions in the letter. The House Democrats' oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident, led by Casar and Matsui
Representative Greg Casar, Oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident (PDF), primary source, as of .
- 32 members
Members signing per Casar's release. The House Democrats' oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident, led by Casar and Matsui
Representative Greg Casar, Casar leads demand for information from OpenAI about security incident, primary source, as of .
- 1,268 signatories
Signatories reported on the day the companies endorsed. Pacing the Frontier, a statement by employees of frontier AI companies
TechTimes, OpenAI, Anthropic formally back plan to slow AI that writes its own code, secondary source, as of .
The ledger
Every record, newest first
20 records. Each row opens a page carrying the answer, the verdict and what it means, the key facts, the figures with their sources, what it changes for a policy or compliance lead, and the sources it was verified against.
Answers
What people ask the Slowdown Docket
Which bills would pause or ban frontier AI development?
3 bills on the docket as of September 2026: Senator John Kennedy's kill switch legislation for AI models; The AI Kill Switch Act, Representatives Lieu and Moran; The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Sanders and Casar. Each page states the stage, what the bill would require and what it would not do.
Does anything on the docket bind anyone today?
Nothing on the docket binds anyone today. Every item is a letter, a proposal, an introduced bill or a commitment a lab made to itself, and the binding dimension on each page says so.
Who has answered the pause calls with a no?
5 items on the docket carry the counter position or a foreign government's answer: Gary Marcus, why I oppose the Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act; President Trump's answer to the slowdown call: whoever wins AI wins; Gabriela Ramos, What Amodei's Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong; The European Commission's handling of OpenAI's AI Act incident report, and the absence of a pause response; China's foreign ministry answer to the slowdown call: fear mongering hampers global AI governance.
Which investigations are open?
1 probe: Senator Hawley's subcommittee investigation into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face incident. The next step on the record, such as a date by which answers were requested, is on each page.
What has been introduced, in which chamber, and how far has it moved?
3 records of kind bill are on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Senator John Kennedy's kill switch legislation for AI models; The AI Kill Switch Act, Representatives Lieu and Moran; The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Sanders and Casar. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
Which committee or regulator is asking questions, of whom, by when?
1 record of kind probe is on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Senator Hawley's subcommittee investigation into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face incident. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
Who testified or briefed, to whom, and what was on the record?
1 record of kind hearing or briefing is on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Senator Sanders' bipartisan Senate briefing with Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
Who signed what, asking whom for what?
6 records of kind letter or statement are on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic and his call to stop accelerating recursive self improvement; Pause Giant AI Experiments, the Future of Life Institute open letter of 2023; The House Democrats' oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident, led by Casar and Matsui; Dario Amodei's essay We Must Pace the Frontier and Anthropic's evaluator commitment; Senator Sanders' letter asking OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause AI development; Pacing the Frontier, a statement by employees of frontier AI companies. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
What did a lab say it would do, and what did it actually do?
2 records of kind lab commitment are on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Anthropic's When AI builds itself: the option to slow or pause, conditional on verifiable peers; OpenAI's two week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
What has an executive branch ordered or proposed?
1 record of kind executive action is on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: The UK written ministerial statement of 7 September 2026, Artificial intelligence update. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
How did another government answer the slowdown call?
2 records of kind foreign government response are on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: The European Commission's handling of OpenAI's AI Act incident report, and the absence of a pause response; China's foreign ministry answer to the slowdown call: fear mongering hampers global AI governance. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
Who argues against a pause or a ban, and on what grounds?
3 records of kind counter position are on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Gary Marcus, why I oppose the Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act; President Trump's answer to the slowdown call: whoever wins AI wins; Gabriela Ramos, What Amodei's Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
What has nobody settled?
1 record of kind open question is on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: Would any instrument on this docket have applied to an evaluation run rather than a deployed system?. Each has its own page with the verdict, the facts, the sources it was checked against and the date.
What do the verdicts mean?
Verified: the document exists and the ledger fetched it at its publisher. Reported: a reliable secondary source carries it and the primary could not be reached. Announced: a body said it will act and no document exists. Absent: the ledger searched and found nothing, and the search is written into the record. Open: a question nobody has settled, posed and not answered.
How current is the Slowdown Docket?
Every record carries the date it was last verified; the ledger as a whole was last verified 16 September 2026 and holds 20 records with 21 primary sources. A change moves the record's own date and appears on the changelog, so a reader who cited a row can see whether it moved.
Every surface
Cut the ledger the way you need it
By jurisdiction
By kind
- Bill3
- Probe1
- Hearing or briefing1
- Letter or statement6
- Lab commitment2
- Executive action1
- Foreign government response2
- Counter position3
- Open question1
Every record page
- DKT-2026-0020: Gary Marcus, why I oppose the Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act
- DKT-2026-0019: Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic and his call to stop accelerating recursive self improvement
- DKT-2026-0018: Pause Giant AI Experiments, the Future of Life Institute open letter of 2023
- DKT-2026-0017: Anthropic's When AI builds itself: the option to slow or pause, conditional on verifiable peers
- DKT-2026-0016: President Trump's answer to the slowdown call: whoever wins AI wins
- DKT-2026-0015: The UK written ministerial statement of 7 September 2026, Artificial intelligence update
- DKT-2026-0014: Would any instrument on this docket have applied to an evaluation run rather than a deployed system?
- DKT-2026-0013: The European Commission's handling of OpenAI's AI Act incident report, and the absence of a pause response
- DKT-2026-0012: Gabriela Ramos, What Amodei's Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong
- DKT-2026-0011: China's foreign ministry answer to the slowdown call: fear mongering hampers global AI governance
- DKT-2026-0010: Senator John Kennedy's kill switch legislation for AI models
- DKT-2026-0009: The AI Kill Switch Act, Representatives Lieu and Moran
- DKT-2026-0008: Senator Sanders' bipartisan Senate briefing with Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra
- DKT-2026-0007: The House Democrats' oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident, led by Casar and Matsui
- DKT-2026-0006: Senator Hawley's subcommittee investigation into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face incident
- DKT-2026-0005: Dario Amodei's essay We Must Pace the Frontier and Anthropic's evaluator commitment
- DKT-2026-0004: The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Sanders and Casar
- DKT-2026-0003: OpenAI's two week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models
- DKT-2026-0002: Senator Sanders' letter asking OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause AI development
- DKT-2026-0001: Pacing the Frontier, a statement by employees of frontier AI companies
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