OpenAI and Anthropic staffers sign call for US to pace AI development
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When staff at frontier labs ask Washington to help pace development, they’re effectively inviting external constraints into their own roadmap. Policy and compliance teams should assume more formal guardrails are coming and start mapping which current projects would be most exposed to slower timelines.
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