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Conjecture CEO; AI safety researcher
The primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place. Unsafe ASI is vastly easier to build than controlled ASI, and is on the same tech path.
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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached
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AI Verified Leahy explicitly calls for a global ASI ban with enforcement, supporting a ban on superintelligence development. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
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AI Verified A global ASI ban backed by powerful enforcement strongly supports a binding international AI-safety treaty. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The quote supports internationally enforceable AI-safety constraints; recorded answer 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed
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AI Verified Leahy explicitly requires a global ASI ban with powerful enforcement, directly supporting capability for a global slowdown. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The quote supports a globally enforceable slowdown/ban; recorded answer 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago

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AI Verified Leahy's 16 April 2026 AI Alignment Forum post contains the corrected verbatim passage and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
Disputed Disputed: the source page shows Connor Leahy as the post author on 2026-04-16, and it does contain the sentence "the primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place." But the later sentence about "The point of an ASI ban/pause..." appears separately in a comment by Vladimir_Nesov, not in Connor Leahy’s post. So the stored quote is a stitched, non-verbatim multi-author quote and cannot be verified as a single-author Connor Leahy quote. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
Disputed The source URL is a real AI Alignment Forum post by Connor Leahy dated April 16, 2026, and the post contains the first sentence essentially verbatim; the linked original on ettf.land does as well. ([alignmentforum.org](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/7noKve57za3yg2LEb/you-can-only-build-safe-asi-if-asi-is-globally-banned-1)) But the later sentence starting “The point of an ASI ban/pause ...” appears on the Alignment Forum page as a comment by Vladimir_Nesov, not as text by Leahy, and it does not appear in the linked original post. ([alignmentforum.org](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/7noKve57za3yg2LEb/you-can-only-build-safe-asi-if-asi-is-globally-banned-1)) So the submitted quote is a composite/misattribution, not a fully verbatim Connor Leahy quote. ([alignmentforum.org](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/7noKve57za3yg2LEb/you-can-only-build-safe-asi-if-asi-is-globally-banned-1)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Connor Leahy (Conjecture CEO, AI safety researcher), from his April 2026 post "You can only build safe ASI if ASI is globally banned" (Alignment Forum / his Substack). The source_url (alignmentforum.org) returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the post and its core claim verbatim: "The primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place," along with his argument that unsafe ASI is easier to build than controlled ASI and that a ban/pause buys time to narrow that gap. Attribution correct, year 2026, relevant. Vote "for" on statement 379 (ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached) aligns strongly: the entire post advocates a global ASI ban with enforcement as a prerequisite to safe development. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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