Nicholas Felstead on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Nicholas Felstead

AI policy fellow at the Center for Law & AI Risk, researching antitrust, digital market regulation, AI, and online safety.

Assuming capabilities continue to accelerate, one responsible course may be for frontier developers to stop, investigate, and let alignment research and governance catch up.

AI Verified (Jun 29, 2026)

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Nicholas Felstead, “Can Frontier AI Labs Lawfully Agree to Pause?”, Lawfare, June 29, 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 Lawfare source presents Felstead’s call to stop and let alignment research and governance catch up; it supports a conditional frontier-AI pause. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Felstead says frontier developers may responsibly stop so alignment research and governance can catch up; this supports the proposed pause. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Lawfare, June 29, 2026, attributes the exact wording to Nicholas Felstead in “Can Frontier AI Labs Lawfully Agree to Pause?”. · 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

A coordinated pause may be the most valuable safety intervention available to the industry, and it is also the form of collaboration most likely to raise antitrust concerns.

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