Comment by David Clyde

Member of Technical Staff in pretraining at OpenAI.
I currently feel quite afraid of all paths I see that don't include a near-future negotiated slowdown. I'm also worried about the world's chances of negotiating+initiating a slowdown fast enough, but demonstrating broad agreement on this statement seems a valuable step.
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AI Verified Relevant: this verified comment supports developing a coordinated option/capability to pace or slow frontier AI development when needed. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Verified “for”: the author supports building a coordinated capability to slow or pace frontier AI development if needed, matching the recorded answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Verified against Pacing the Frontier (July 2026): the primary page lists this personal comment verbatim under the named author. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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