Comment by Micah Carroll

AI safety researcher in Misalignment Preparedness at OpenAI.
At the current pace, every couple of weeks there will be new models which significantly increase the consequences of model misuse and misalignment. I worry that efforts to mitigate these risks may fail to keep up with the pace of development, and that margins for error will become increasingly small under international competitive pressures. In the near future, we may urgently want to enact an internationally coordinated slowdown, or an indefinite ban on AI development. Attempting to build the trust and infrastructure for taking such actions on short notice seems simply prudent – why would we not at least try to have this option? I fear that in an international race to the bottom of AI development, it is likely that no nation will win, and we will all lose together.
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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 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote supports an internationally coordinated slowdown or even an indefinite AI-development ban because safety measures may not keep pace; this supports the statement, matching recorded for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Source https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ July 2026 Personal Comments reproduces this wording and attributes it to Micah Carroll. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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