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AI safety researcher; former safety researcher at OpenAI and Google DeepMind, former chief scientist at the UK AI Security Institute, and cofounder and chief scientist of Resolution.
Now. My take is that if we were to carefully analyse this question of exactly when we should slow down, it would be a while ago in the past, because we’re just too close to this crazy future. Trying to be super precise about exactly when in the future, like, no, no, no: “Already” is the answer.
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Geoffrey Irving, interview with Tom Reed, “#251 – Geoffrey Irving on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives,” 80,000 Hours, August 11, 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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