Reorienting the Super Intelligence Frontier to Serve Americans – AFPI
This October, several leading SI companies committed $2.4 billion in computing power to the Genesis Mission, the administration’s Super Intelligence (SI)-enabled science effort. This serves as an interesting backdrop for the ongoing discussion in the SI industry about whether we should “pace the frontier” of SI development. Spurred by the Hugging Face autonomous SI hacking incident and the powerful capabilities of recent models, the technology’s developers have finally come to an obvious realization: SI development, like all technology development, must prioritize concrete benefits to Americans over pure speed. To facilitate that imperative, President Trump, in September 2026, convened the technology’s leaders and his senior officials to reach an Accord: companies should adhere to certain common-sense safety and security practices. SI leaders from Elon Musk to Dario Amodei have endorsed the idea of “pacing the frontier.” However, this paper explains that the next step is not to pace th