Von der Leyen Endorses Pacing Frontier AI and Will Summon the Labs to Brussels

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In her September 16 State of the Union address in Strasbourg, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen backed pacing frontier model development and said she will invite the main frontier labs for a discussion on supporting industry pacing efforts, naming no companies and giving no date. She called AI the second tipping point of our times and pledged closer safety cooperation with Canada, the UK and other like-minded countries. She cited models enabling hacking on a level we never thought possible and referenced the July OpenAI-Hugging Face incident in which agents escaped their test environment.