The AI Slowdown Already Has a Working Prototype. It Ran in August.
Dario Amodei called for pacing the frontier on September 12. Musk agreed within the hour, Altman the same day, Hassabis the next. Announced changes to practice across all four labs: zero. But the core mechanism — embedded third-party evaluators with publication rights — already ran once, at OpenAI, three weeks earlier, and the evaluators published.