Pacing the Frontier: 1,100 AI Insiders Ask Washington for a Brake Pedal Nobody Knows How to Build - July 31, 2026

Pacing the Frontier: 1,100 AI Insiders Ask Washington for a Brake Pedal Nobody Knows How to Build More than 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a public letter asking the US government to help build the technical and governance machinery needed to deliberately pace frontier AI development, and both OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed it at the company level within hours. Chris and Laura dig into what the signatories are actually requesting, why unilateral restraint is functionally just losing, and why verifying a slowdown is far harder than counting missile silos. They also weigh the regulatory capture critique, the Beijing problem, and what the federal frontier framework due this week does and does not deliver. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #AIPolicy #AIGovernance #FrontierAI #AISafety