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Comment by Joe Carlsmith
Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy; writes on AI safety, alignment, and existential risk from power-seeking AI
we would indeed see significant (read: multi-year) restraint on the development of artificial superintelligence while we improve our understanding of how to ensure its safety. [...] A wiser and more coordinated civilization would likely be employing quite a lot of capability restraint in building advanced AI, especially as we start to approach transformatively powerful systems.AI Verified source (2026)
28d ago
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AI Verified
Verified via web search. Quote is from Joe Carlsmith's essay "On restraining AI development for the sake of safety" published March 19, 2026 on his personal website and EA Forum. The source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but multiple platforms (joecarlsmith.com, Substack, EA Forum, LessWrong) confirm the exact phrasing about "capability restraint" and the wiser/coordinated civilization argument. Vote "for" the statement "Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached" aligns well - Carlsmith explicitly argues for multi-year restraint on artificial superintelligence development until safety understanding improves.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 23d ago
replying to Joe Carlsmith