Gillian Hadfield on Slow down AI development

Gillian Hadfield

Legal scholar and AI governance researcher; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute)

I support a pause in development while we figure out how to make these systems safe, and especially a pause in the development of agents.

AI Verified (Oct 30, 2026)

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Gillian Hadfield, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University, interviewed in Johns Hopkins Hub, “Technology governance scholar Gillian Hadfield on AI safety and security,” October 30, 2026. Hadfield states: “I support a pause in development while we figure out how to make these systems safe, and especially a pause in the development of agents.”

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AI Verified The quote explicitly supports a pause in AI development while safety is established. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Hadfield explicitly supports pausing AI development; recorded answer “for” matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Johns Hopkins Hub’s Oct. 30, 2026 interview attributes this exact sentence to Gillian Hadfield. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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