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2026-09-10 · Source：SiliconANGLE p2
OpenAI's chief scientist says leading labs should voluntarily pace model development, adding a prominent industry voice to months of growing calls for slower AI research.
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown, setting out the position in an essay published on Sunday. According to Pachocki, leading AI laboratories should voluntarily pace their model development efforts rather than push frontier capabilities forward at maximum speed. The intervention places one of the industry's most senior technical executives behind the idea that the tempo of frontier model work now warrants deliberate restraint.
The essay argues that such slowdowns should become "commonplace" across the field. That wording matters: Pachocki is not describing a single, exceptional pause but a standing practice — a norm under which leading labs routinely coordinate the speed at which they advance their models. The appeal follows months in which other prominent industry figures have expressed similar views, a pattern indicating that concern over development pace has been building well beyond a single company.
The significance of the call lies partly in its source. Pachocki speaks for OpenAI Group PBC, and an endorsement of voluntary pacing from inside a leading laboratory reframes the slowdown debate as a question the industry can address itself rather than one imposed from outside. The proposal rests on self-restraint: labs would pace their own work by choice, with no enforcement mechanism described in the essay.
Whether "commonplace" pacing can take hold is the open question. The competitive dynamics of frontier AI, in which rapid model progress confers advantage, pull against collective restraint. Pachocki's essay effectively asks rival laboratories to treat pacing as shared practice, and how other labs respond will determine whether the argument hardens into an industry norm or remains one executive's appeal.
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