Lab commitment

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: 2 verified, 0 reported, 0 announced, 0 absent, 0 open. By jurisdiction: United States 2.

Lab commitment

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VerifiedLab commitmentDKT-2026-0017
Anthropic's When AI builds itself: the option to slow or pause, conditional on verifiable peers
United States · verified 16 September 2026
Anthropic's text: it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up.
VerifiedLab commitmentDKT-2026-0003
OpenAI's two week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models
United States · verified 16 September 2026
OpenAI's post of 18 August 2026, Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities, and its X post of the same day state the two week RL pause on models intended for deployment and the largest frontier RL run on hold.

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