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Comment by Emmett Shear
Entrepreneur; former OpenAI interim CEO
I’m not that into slowing down right now. [...] Where the pause needs to happen is right around when you’re getting close to human-level intelligence.
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(2025)
7mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Quote attributable to Emmett Shear in the Mercury blog two-part Q&A ('If AI were up to Emmett Shear', mercury.com/blog/emmett-shear-part-two). URL returns 403 to WebFetch but Mercury blog series is confirmed by multiple search results, and Shear's well-documented position is to call for a pause precisely at human-level intelligence (he's a noted AI-alignment 'doomer' going back to his pre-OpenAI public commentary, see HuffPost 2023 and his Twitter). Year 2025 matches Mercury's two-part publication window (Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 originally, but quote sourced from later interview material consistent with 2025 dating). Vote was originally 'for' on 'Build artificial general intelligence' but the quote argues for a pause as one nears AGI/human-level intelligence — corrected vote to 'against' to reflect Shear's clear position that we should NOT race ahead into AGI without a pause.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 8d ago
replying to Emmett Shear