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Comment by Peter Slattery

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Research scientist at MIT FutureTech and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, studying AI risks and governance.
Because AI development is highly competitive, labs and governments have limited incentives to slow down or invest sufficiently in safety. This is why laws, treaties, and other collective-action mechanisms may become necessary.
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Peter Slattery, quoted in “International AI experts warn of potentially catastrophic risks from AI,” MIT Sloan, June 3, 2026.
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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed
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AI Verified Verified against the cited source page (https://mitsloan.mit.edu/press/international-ai-experts-warn-potentially-catastrophic-risks-ai); wording, attribution, and stored date are supported. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18h ago
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