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Nicholas Joseph

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic leading pretraining.

I lead pretraining at Anthropic, which is responsible for training the base models behind Claude. Every month, more work is done by the models themselves: infrastructure implementation, code optimization, and experiment design and analysis. This has drastically altered how we work and significantly increased our rate of progress. I’m not sure if or where it tops out, but a rapid acceleration in capabilities might be dangerous for society, so it seems prudent to have the ability to slow down deliberately.

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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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AI Verified Nicholas Joseph says rapid capability acceleration may be dangerous and it is prudent to retain the ability to slow down; directly supports the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Source Pacing the Frontier (July 2026) publishes this wording as Nicholas Joseph’s personal comment; exact text and attribution match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

Every month, more work is done by the models themselves: infrastructure implementation, code optimization, and experiment design and analysis. This has drastically altered how we work and significantly increased our rate of progress. I’m not sure if ...

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

I lead pretraining at Anthropic, which is responsible for training the base models behind Claude. Every month, more work is done by the models themselves: infrastructure implementation, code optimization, and experiment design and analysis. This has ...

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