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Anthropic Institute

Anthropic policy and research institute studying AI capabilities, governance, and societal impacts.

We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. The Anthropic Institute will conduct research—in collaboration with many others—and take actions to help build the systems that a credible slowdown or pause would require. [...] If such systems existed, we expect that we would slow down or temporarily pause, if other developers at or near the frontier also did so in a verifiable manner.

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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 explicitly supports a slowdown or temporary pause of frontier AI development, so it is directly relevant. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly supports the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development if others do so verifiably, so 'for' matches. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Anthropic's page at lines 152-154 contains the same option-to-slow-or-pause frontier AI wording and the conditional slowdown statement. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

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