Jeff Klingner on Slow down AI development

Jeff Klingner

Senior Software Engineer at Google; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

Once this becomes common knowledge - once all of us in China & the US and at the various labs see that all the rest of us also think we need to slow this down - that's when coordination becomes possible.

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Jeff Klingner, personal comment published with “Pacing the Frontier,” July 2026. The site identifies Klingner as a Senior Software Engineer at Google and says personal comments are made in a personal capacity.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

Once this becomes common knowledge - once all of us in China & the US and at the various labs see that all the rest of us also think we need to slow this down - that's when coordination becomes possible.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

Once this becomes common knowledge - once all of us in China & the US and at the various labs see that all the rest of us also think we need to slow this down - that's when coordination becomes possible.

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