This article gathers key voices—like Roon and Geoffrey Irving—arguing that unilateral AI pauses won’t work and that only a coordinated, industry-wide slowdown can meaningfully reduce risks. It then covers the “Pacing the Frontier” open letter, signed by leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and others, laying out steps for labs to publicly commit to pausing if competitors do, lobby governments, and build trustless verification tools.