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Comment by Niamh Teather

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Consultant at Oxford Insights, a government AI-governance and digital-transformation advisory firm.
Pacing is an attempt to buy time: to keep capability from outrunning understanding and control. [...] These are risks in the design of pacing, not reasons to abandon it.
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Niamh Teather, “Pacing the frontier: the limits of voluntary restraint,” Oxford Insights, October 2, 2026. Teather defines pacing as keeping AI capability from outrunning understanding and control, then argues that its design risks are not reasons to abandon it.
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