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Ryan Kaufman

AI researcher at Standard Intelligence.

Misalignment is a still-unsolved technical problem, as the Hugging Face incident made clear, and it will only be amplified by more intelligent models. Solving the alignment problem may require a global slowdown of the frontier, including internal deployment. The world should have the mechanism to coordinate this, and it currently does not.

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Personal comment published with “Pacing the Frontier,” a July 2026 statement from frontier-AI employees.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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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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