Ilya Sutskever on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

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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Personal comment published with “Pacing the Frontier,” July 2026.

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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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AI Verified Sutskever says extraordinary future AI power needs unprecedented international measures; source context is the proposal to pace that frontier. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Sutskever endorses unprecedented international measures for powerful future AI in the cited pacing proposal, supporting its direction. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified pacingthefrontier.com, July 2026 comments lines 25–27 reproduce this wording and attribute it to Ilya Sutskever. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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