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Matthew Rahtz

Staff Research Engineer at Google; AI capability-evaluation researcher.

Even after 3 years working on AI capability evaluations, the recent pace of progress has been a shock. To avoid catastrophic harms from AGI, we need much, much better coordination.

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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 The cited personal comment favors slowing or deliberately pacing frontier/superhuman AI development because of safety and governance risk; it is relevant to temporary restriction pending safety consensus. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote says catastrophic AGI harms require much better coordination amid rapid progress; it strongly supports pausing until safety consensus, matching recorded for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Source https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ July 2026 Personal Comments reproduces this wording and attributes it to Matthew Rahtz. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

Even after 3 years working on AI capability evaluations, the recent pace of progress has been a shock. To avoid catastrophic harms from AGI, we need much, much better coordination.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

Even after 3 years working on AI capability evaluations, the recent pace of progress has been a shock. To avoid catastrophic harms from AGI, we need much, much better coordination.

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

Even after 3 years working on AI capability evaluations, the recent pace of progress has been a shock. To avoid catastrophic harms from AGI, we need much, much better coordination.

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