Maxwell Tabarrok on The U.S. and China should establish Mut…

Maxwell Tabarrok

Economics PhD candidate at Harvard Business School and writer on economics and progress studies.

The best plan is still “pause and let us figure out what to do”? Any credibility this policy might have had has been overtaken by events. What could we possibly have figured out about how to make Mythos safe if we had paused AI in 2023? So far, we’ve made lots of progress on AI alignment and safety coincident with improvements in capability. Alignment and control are very useful properties for products to have so I expect this to continue on the default path.

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The U.S. and China should establish Mutually Assured Compute Destruction

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AI Verified The quote rejects the Plan A/pause policy rationale and favors continued capability-linked safety progress, implying opposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote rejects the Plan A/pause approach and favors continued safety progress with capability advances. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified TheZvi’s July 11, 2026 post reproduces this exact Maxwell Tabarrok statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

We should not make big sacrifices of property rights and cede lots of power to new institutions unless there’s an extremely clear vision of the risks and solutions at hand.

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