Jonah Blank on Slow down AI development

Jonah Blank

American author, journalist, and foreign-policy expert; senior political scientist at RAND Corporation.

The right-now policy conclusion is the same for both types of misalignment: We need an immediate halt to all efforts to push the AI frontier further.

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Jonah Blank, “The AI Alignment That Can Save Us,” Washington Monthly, October 1, 2026. Blank argues for an immediate halt to pushing the AI frontier further.

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AI Verified “Immediate halt to all efforts to push the AI frontier further” directly supports slowing AI development. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 50min ago

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AI Verified The quote’s call for an immediate halt to pushing the AI frontier supports the recorded ‘for’. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 49min ago

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AI Verified Washington Monthly’s Oct. 1, 2026 article by Jonah Blank contains this exact sentence; the stored date, author, and wording match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 50min ago

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