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Where this definition comes from
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3.4, Introduction
“Our recommendations for industry-wide safety outline what it would take, at an industry-wide level, to keep catastrophic risks reliably low ... We also include our planned mitigations as a company”
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/0bacdc8440ea96e62a8766d99ebe1d4eea6d5f3a.pdfOpenAI Preparedness Framework v2, p.1
“We won't deploy these very capable models until we've built safeguards to sufficiently minimize the associated risks of severe harm.”
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/18a02b5d-6b67-4cec-ab64-68cdfbddebcd/preparedness-framework-v2.pdf'Pacing the Frontier' open letter
“a statement from 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies ... asking that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development”
https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
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How named organisations use this concept
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| Organisation | Their term, as published | Match | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic Anthropic RSP v3.4 / 'We Must Pace the Frontier' | “"Anthropic is unilaterally committing to this step now" (Embedded Evaluators); RSP v3.4 Introduction verbatim: "Our recommendations for industry-wide safety outline what it would take, at an industry-wide level, to keep catastrophic risks reliably low ... We also include our planned mitigations as a company," with "2. Frontier Safety Roadmap" and "3. Risk Reports" as separate top-level sections; the RSP is explicitly "our voluntary framework for managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems."” Also cites {PACE} (Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay) for the unilateral-commitment framing; {PACE} and {PTF} are two distinct documents (see the false-friends register). | exact confidence: high | Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3.4 |
| OpenAI OpenAI Preparedness Framework v2 | “"We won't deploy these very capable models until we've built safeguards to sufficiently minimize the associated risks of severe harm." (PF p.1). Altman: OpenAI "will do the same."” Also cites {SAMA}, a social-media post, as a secondary and less formal source. | exact confidence: high | OpenAI Preparedness Framework v2 |
| Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework v3.1 | “"aim to share relevant information with appropriate government authorities" (s.5.2): aspirational. The FSF is described as voluntary internal protocols.” | close confidence: medium | Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework v3.1 |
| xAI xAI Frontier AI Framework (30 Jun 2026) | “Modality split: "xAI will conduct a full systemic risk assessment ... at least once a year" (firm) versus "may" for trigger-point evaluations, tiered availability, shutdown and post-mortems. Musk's posts carry no xAI commitment.” {FAIF26}'s PDF metadata /Title reads 'Privileged/Confidential DRAFT working FRAMEWORK DOC'; no xAI statement disambiguating draft vs. final was found (source's open-VERIFY register item 4, unresolved). Also cites {MUSK}, a social-media post carrying no commitment. | close confidence: medium | xAI Frontier AI Framework (30 Jun 2026) |
| Meta Meta Advanced AI Scaling Framework v2 | “"We will publish a preparedness report for each closed or open Frontier AI release" (§2.2.1); whistleblower protocol still "developing."” | close confidence: medium | Meta Advanced AI Scaling Framework v2 |
| EU EU GPAI Code of Practice (landing page) | “Signatories adhere to all three chapters; "xAI signed up to the Safety and Security Chapter" only and must show other compliance "via alternative adequate means" (landing page, as reported).” | exact confidence: high | EU GPAI Code of Practice (landing page) |
| US Government (NIST CAISI) NIST/CAISI announcement | “CAISI "announced new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI" (terms not public).” Terms of the CAISI agreements are not public; the source's own open-VERIFY register (item 13) records access level, days-before-release and publication rights as unresolved, and notes the full NIST announcement page returned a 404. Treat scope/modality as unconfirmed. | close confidence: low | NIST/CAISI announcement |
| METR METR | “Common elements are phrased as "Intentions to ..." and "Commitments to ..." (element definitions).” | close confidence: medium | METR |
| Safety Framework Cards (discovery) Safety Framework Cards (SSRN 7061798) | “"mitigation commitments" [UV].” SFC is paywalled/unread in this research pass (source's open-VERIFY register item 5: SSRN full text is account-gated and archive.org access was blocked); term recorded from a discovery snippet only, not verified against source text. No resolvable primary URL was supplied for this tag. | none confidence: low | Discovery sweep (evaluator ecosystem; Safety Framework Cards, unread/paywalled) |
| Seoul Summit signatories Frontier AI Safety Commitments (Seoul 2024) / 'Pacing the Frontier' open letter | “Seoul: "Commitments I-V: risk assessment, intolerable-risk thresholds, mitigations, breach processes including a halt, continued investment" (voluntary). "Pacing the Frontier": "a statement from 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies" asking that "the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." Each signatory record carries name, professional title, organizational affiliation, and any statement the signatory chooses to publish, reviewed and published by the nonprofit administrator (Guidelight AI Standards), with anonymous-but-verified signing as a first-class mode (292 of 1,386 records publish employer only) and a stated correction/removal process.” IMPORTANT false-friend (source §4): "Pacing the Frontier" names two distinct documents -- {PACE} (Dario Amodei's personal essay, 12 Sep 2026) and {PTF} (a differently-authored, earlier open letter, Jul 2026, hosted by the nonprofit Guidelight AI Standards with Encode AI). This row concerns {PTF} only; do not conflate with the {PACE} citation on the Anthropic row above. {PTF}'s value to NIKOLAI is its signatory-attestation workflow, not its policy content. Separately, the open-VERIFY register (item 14) notes Amodei-essay quotations elsewhere in the corpus were fetched via a summarising tool and not yet checked against the live page -- that caveat applies to {PACE} citations generally, not to this {PTF}-based row. | exact confidence: medium | Frontier AI Safety Commitments (AI Seoul Summit 2024) |
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Pointers that are not crosswalk claims
These sources mention this concept but do not define or map it clearly enough to count as a crosswalk row — noted here so the research is visible without overstating it as a mapping.
- California SB 53
"Statutory duties ('shall') rather than voluntary commitments" -- a related but non-identical concept (legal compulsion vs. voluntary commitment); recorded as a pointer, not a mapping.
California SB 53 - Frontier Model Forum
Industry commitment to standards "at least as stringent as the current ecosystem baseline" floated as "One approach", not adopted.
Frontier Model Forum, Risk Taxonomy and Thresholds
