John Schulman on Frontier AI Safety and Governance

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Disputes over the development, testing, oversight, pacing, and governance of highly capable AI systems and their potential catastrophic risks.

Scope: Includes attributable disputes about whether frontier developers’ safeguards, deployment decisions, and proposed coordination mechanisms are sufficient. It does not treat speculative future outcomes as established facts.

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1 event on this page. Dates: September 9, 2026

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1 total published event. Dates: September 9, 2026

September 9, 2026Mixed or conditional
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
“First step is for industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic to stop feuding and work on a pacing proposal together.”
Speaker capacity
Personal public post by John Schulman; not established as an official statement for a company or government.
Editorial rationale
Advocates a concrete coordinated-pacing proposal; neither approves unrestricted development nor endorses a blanket ban.
John Schulman on Coxon’s warning and the frontier AI safety debate (opens in a new tab)

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