Clare Birch on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Clare Birch

Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines; AI researcher.

Whether or not automated AI research accelerates as sharply as some expect, the option requested here is valuable. How fast and how widely capability spreads should be a deliberate choice, made on evidence, rather than a side effect of competitive pressure. Regulators and R&D orgs should build the tools to make that choice at the frontier-wide level before we need them.

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

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

Whether or not automated AI research accelerates as sharply as some expect, the option requested here is valuable. How fast and how widely capability spreads should be a deliberate choice, made on evidence, rather than a side effect of competitive pr...

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

Whether or not automated AI research accelerates as sharply as some expect, the option requested here is valuable. How fast and how widely capability spreads should be a deliberate choice, made on evidence, rather than a side effect of competitive pr...

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