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SEP 9 · Clipped · via X · @j_asminewang Emergency Stop

Jasmine Wang counts 1,385 signatures for a slower race

Ten percent of the staff signing a letter is a design signal. The humans who know the systems best want a brake. Give them one they can press from inside the product.

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watching → emerging → established

A candidate behavior, not yet a published pattern. Early signal — worth tracking, not yet worth standardizing on.

11 documented sightings since Jul 2026 — every one traces to a dated source.

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Machine summary of the source

Jasmine Wang (@j_asminewang) on X said she and about 1,385 others signed a letter to slow frontier AI development. She put that figure at eight to ten percent of frontier-lab staff. Recursive self-improvement, meaning a model used to build its own successor, was the specific risk the letter named.

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