Jan Leike on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Jan Leike

Former head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropic

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 Jan Leike. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI alignment is solvable

Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable [...] Since then a lot has happened: pretraining continued improving and RL became a much bigger deal.

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