Joe Rogan Experience #2544 - Chris Williamson · Aired Aug 21, 2026
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Large AI research laboratories signed a 'frontier paper' agreement to slow down the speed of AI research.
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The agreement exists and it is not about slowing down. Sixteen companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and Amazon signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the Seoul summit in May 2024. What they committed to was publishing safety frameworks, naming the risks they consider intolerable, and not shipping a model where those risks cannot be mitigated. Nobody agreed to move slower overall.
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Is it true that Large AI research laboratories signed a 'frontier paper' agreement to slow down the speed of AI research?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The agreement exists and it is not about slowing down. Sixteen companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and Amazon signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the Seoul summit in May 2024. Chris Williamson said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2544 - Chris Williamson, aired Aug 21, 2026, at 58:02. The supporting source is gov.uk, linked below.
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