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Zachary Kenton

Staff Research Scientist and Amplified Oversight Team Lead at Google.

The option to buy time would be extremely useful to enable more progress on technical AI safety and alignment research. In particular, we need to develop better oversight methods, to match the pace of increasing AI capabilities. Oversight is a tractable problem, but we need more research and time to make it robust.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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AI Unverifiable The linked page identifies the July 2026 statement but its accessible Personal Comments do not expose this Zachary Kenton wording; insufficient evidence to verify or dispute. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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

The option to buy time would be extremely useful to enable more progress on technical AI safety and alignment research. In particular, we need to develop better oversight methods, to match the pace of increasing AI capabilities. Oversight is a tracta...

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