YouCongress
Explore About Sign up

Comment by Emmett Shear

Avatar
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.
AI Verified source (2025)
Like Share on X 11mo ago

Policy proposals and claims

Slow down AI development
abstains
Statement relation verification history AI Verified Report this

Statement relation comments

AI Verified Full-claim match: the quote addresses AI development/capability growth and a slower pace, pause, halt, or explicit rejection/mixed position. Evidence: 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. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago
Vote inference verification history AI Verified Report this

Vote answer comments

AI Verified Recorded abstain matches the quote's stance on slowing AI development. Evidence: 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. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago

Quote authenticity verification history

Report this

Quote authenticity comments

AI Verified The Mercury Q&A "If AI were up to Emmett Shear" contains the exact wording, with your [...] cleanly omitting "because I don’t think we’re close enough," and the passage is presented as Shear’s answer in the interview. The URL therefore supports the quote, but the page is dated December 19, 2023 and updated August 30, 2024, not 2025. ([mercury.com](https://mercury.com/blog/emmett-shear-part-two)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago
replying to Emmett Shear