Scott Alexander on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Scott Alexander

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Then, in the mid-2030s, they pause at AIs around the level of top human geniuses. These AIs are close enough to current AIs that the same alignment techniques that mostly-sort-of-work for ours might mostly-sort-of-work for them too... The plan is to spend the next ~10 years using this "country of geniuses in a data center" to solve AI alignment, along with approximately all other problems.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

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AI Verified The quote says the plan pauses at top-human-genius AIs to spend the next ~10 years solving alignment, which directly matches the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says to pause at top-human-genius AIs and spend the next ~10 years solving alignment, so 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Astral Codex Ten's 'Introducing Plan A' (Jul 9, 2026) contains the quoted 'mid-2030s...pause at AIs around the level of top human geniuses' passage verbatim at lines 72-73; attribution to Scott Alexander matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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