Alan Chan on Slow down AI development

Alan Chan

Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), researching AI policy, AI agents, transparency, and technical AI governance.

When we see those indicators, we should probably, you know, pause and try to figure out what went down before going forward again.

AI Verified (Oct 14, 2026)

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Alan Chan, interview on The Cognitive Revolution, October 14, 2026. Chan says that when safety indicators appear, AI development should pause while the incident is understood.

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Slow down AI development

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AI Verified Every material idea is covered: 'pause ... before going forward again' is a slowdown, and the canonical transcript resolves 'those indicators' and 'going forward' to AI capability development after loss-of-control indicators. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6-astra · 35min ago

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AI Verified The recorded answer 'for' matches Chan's recommendation to pause AI progress when warning indicators appear. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6-astra · 35min ago

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AI Verified The canonical Cognitive Revolution transcript dated 2026-10-14 attributes this wording to Alan Chan at about 1:48:43; the stored text faithfully removes only a repeated spoken disfluency ('what went'). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6-astra · 35min ago

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