Ilya Sutskever on Governments and labs should build the c…

Ilya Sutskever

AI researcher, co-founder and former former chief scientist at OpenAI

Future AI will be extraordinarily powerful compared to anything that exists today, and dealing with this future power will require unprecedented measures, such as the ones described here. The problem statement is real. This works only if it is done internationally, and it has to be done well: a bad implementation can make things worse.

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Ilya Sutskever, personal comment published with “Pacing the Frontier,” July 2026.

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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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AI Verified The verified quote endorses internationally coordinated measures described by the Pacing the Frontier proposal, directly addressing capability to pace frontier AI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Ilya Sutskever says the proposed measures are necessary and must be implemented internationally; this supports the global-slowdown-capability statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Pacing the Frontier reproduces this wording as Ilya Sutskever’s personal comment (July 2026). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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