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Open Letter: Pacing the Frontier and Your Association

Amith Nagarajan — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

To the association community,

Pacing the Frontier: What It Means for Your Association

Amith Nagarajan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The Short Version

Dario Amodei's open letter asking the AI industry to slow down does not change what associations should do. It changes why they should do it. The pace of the frontier is not something any single organization can control. The architecture you adopt AI on is, and it was before this weekend.

Your realistic AI risk is not a superintelligent member service agent. It is an agent with more access than it needs, taking an action nobody approved, in an environment where nobody would notice.
Four levers decide how exposed you are: which models run, where they run, what they can touch, and how much is left to the model.
Two things make those levers checkable: observability, and source code you can actually read.
Slowing your own adoption is not the safe response. Being deliberate about what you adopt on is.

What Most Boards Get Wrong About AI Investment

Johanna Snider — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Two kinds of conversations are happening in association boardrooms right now.

Associations Are Being Unbundled. Most Haven't Noticed.

Johanna Snider — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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The AI Infrastructure Trap Associations Need to Avoid

Johanna Snider — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The Secret Cyborg Problem: Why Your Association's AI Gains Are Stuck at 10-20%

Johanna Snider — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Here's something that might be happening in your organization right now.

What I Heard at CESSE: Associations Are Rethinking What They Actually Are

Johanna Snider — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT

The 10% Framework: A New Way to Think About Association Reserves

Johanna Snider — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT

There's a conversation happening in boardrooms that isn't happening often enough — or boldly enough — in associations.