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Chris Olah

Anthropic co-founder, pioneer of mechanistic interpretability

We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

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We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

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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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Disputed Source https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ presents this as a collective statement from 1,376 employees, not a verbatim individual quote by Chris Olah. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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