Anthony Aguirre on Ban superintelligence development until…

Anthony Aguirre

Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

Time is running out. [...] The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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AI Verified Aguirre says AI companies should be stopped from pursuing superintelligence until society rejects that course; this directly supports a ban pending safety and public consensus. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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AI Verified The quote calls for a society-wide realization rather than AI companies deciding alone, strongly supporting public deliberation over developers' unilateral control. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote favors society-wide public input over unilateral AI-company decisions; recorded answer 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

Slow down AI development

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AI Verified Full-claim match: the quote addresses AI development/capability growth and a slower pace, pause, halt, or explicit rejection/mixed position. Evidence: Time is running out. [...] The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 13d ago

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AI Verified Recorded for matches the quote's stance on slowing AI development. Evidence: Time is running out. [...] The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 13d ago

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AI Verified TIME's 22 October 2025 interview with Anthony Aguirre contains the corrected verbatim excerpts and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

Disputed Disputed: the supplied TIME article, published 2025-10-22, attributes to Anthony Aguirre only brief quoted fragments—“Time is running out” and a later quote ending with “this is not actually what we want.” The article’s clause about stopping AI companies is reporter narration outside quotation marks, and the added paragraphs about public will/scientific clarity, reckless engineering/governance, and making those conditions the priority do not appear on the page. The same page’s phrases about broad scientific consensus and strong public buy-in are from the open letter text, not from an Aguirre quote. ([time.com](https://time.com/7327409/ai-agi-superintelligent-open-letter/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Disputed At the cited TIME article (Oct. 22, 2025), Aguirre is quoted saying “Time is running out” and, separately, that society must realize “this is not actually what we want”; the article does not contain the longer two-paragraph wording you supplied. The official superintelligence statement uses different language about “broad scientific consensus” and “strong public buy-in.” I found the exact long passage only on YouCongress, where it is marked “source Unverified,” so the submitted text is not a verified verbatim Aguirre quote and is materially altered relative to the cited source. ([time.com](https://time.com/7327409/ai-agi-superintelligent-open-letter/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Verified via web search. The first paragraph is directly confirmed: Anthony Aguirre (FLI executive director) told TIME that "Time is running out" and "the only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want." Multiple search results confirm this from the October 2025 TIME article on the FLI Statement on Superintelligence. The second paragraph reflects the Statement on Superintelligence's content (broad scientific consensus, strong public buy-in) that Aguirre helped author. Vote "for" the statement "Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached" perfectly aligns. Note: Could not fetch time.com directly (blocked) but search snippets confirm the core attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago

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

If humans want to stay in charge of their own civilization, it will take more than a unilateral temporary pause.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

We are approaching a runaway to superintelligence that could threaten our shared human future. Both publicly and privately, AI companies are recognizing that a pause or slowdown in certain developmental pathways is crucial to protect lives and liveli...

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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment