Letter or statement
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6 records of kind letter or statement are on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: 4 verified, 2 reported, 0 announced, 0 absent, 0 open. By jurisdiction: United States 5, Global 1.
Letter or statement
6 records, newest first
Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic and his call to stop accelerating recursive self improvement
United States · verified 16 September 2026
Time reported on 9 September 2026 that Coxon resigned on 8 September and that his post on X is at x.com/hilbertspaess; the post itself was not fetched by this ledger.
Pause Giant AI Experiments, the Future of Life Institute open letter of 2023
Global · verified 16 September 2026
The ask: all AI labs immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, publicly and verifiably.
The House Democrats' oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident, led by Casar and Matsui
United States · verified 16 September 2026
The letter, posted on casar.house.gov and dated 10 August 2026, asks OpenAI to publicly release the logs and answer 23 numbered questions by 24 August 2026, and states that Congress must hold oversight hearings and put federal guardrails in place.
Dario Amodei's essay We Must Pace the Frontier and Anthropic's evaluator commitment
United States · verified 16 September 2026
The essay's thesis sentence: we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. It states that pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress.
Senator Sanders' letter asking OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause AI development
United States · verified 16 September 2026
Axios reported the letters on 10 August 2026; Sanders cited each company's own earlier statements that it would stop or pause if its systems became too risky to control.
Pacing the Frontier, a statement by employees of frontier AI companies
United States · verified 16 September 2026
The single ask is 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.
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