Frontier developer

An organisation training systems at the edge of available capability.

What it commits you to

Frontier developers are the small set of organisations whose training runs determine what capability exists at all. They carry most of the governance burden and have most of the private incentive to define thresholds in terms favourable to themselves. Whether that is a structural problem or a presentational one depends on whether external verification can be built.

Which realms lean on this

Procedure, not conviction. This is the vocabulary of constitutions, audits and the people who have to sign.

governance · 2 realms — The Contractual Court, The Ubuntu Weave.

Canon that discusses this

declaration · 1986
The Asilomar AI Principles
Drafted over a few hours on the final day of a four-day 1986 conference on future technologies, and the first written set of research principles for advanced AI agreed by the researchers themselves. Its structure — general principles plus separately stated capability thresholds — is the structure of every frontier safety framework since. The excerpt below paraphrases the principles rather than reproducing the agreed wording.

Frontier developer

What it commits you to

Which realms lean on this

Canon that discusses this

The Asilomar AI Principles

See also

Capability threshold

External auditing

Governance brittleness

Compute governance