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Global campaign to pause frontier AI
Inspired by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), this agency will be responsible for: 1. Granting approval for major deployments and training runs of AIs that are judged not to pose a threat to humanity. This will include red-teaming and model evaluations. 2. Granting approval for the creation of more powerful AI once sufficient progress has been made on the technical problems of AI safety and control. 3. Specifying requirements for the oversight of AI training runs. 4. Verifying that the decisions of the agency are being honored. This can be done in numerous ways: tracking GPUs, incentivizing whistleblowers, energy monitoring, data center inspections, financial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing facility inspections, AI developer inspections, chip location tracking and chip-based reporting.
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Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority
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AI Verified The proposal calls for an international agency to approve major deployments and training runs and to verify compliance with oversight requirements, which is directly relevant to mandatory reporting of large training runs to an authority. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified The proposal calls for approval and oversight of major AI training runs by an international agency, so for matches the stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo 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 The quote supports creating an international approval-and-enforcement regime for major AI training runs, including inspections, GPU tracking, and withholding approval for more powerful AI until safety progress is sufficient. That clearly implies support for building the capability to slow frontier AI development globally if needed. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago
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AI Verified The quote advocates a global pause and international oversight of frontier AI development, so the recorded for answer matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago
AI Unverifiable The quote supports international oversight—an agency that would "grant approval" for training runs and "verify that the decisions of the agency are being honored"—but it does not explicitly say governments and labs should build a capability for a "global slowdown" of frontier AI development if needed. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified Verified. PauseAI’s own “PauseAI Proposal” page contains this passage verbatim under “Set up an international AI Safety Agency (AISA),” including the four numbered responsibilities and the ending phrase “chip-based reporting.” The page is labeled “Version: April 5th, 2026,” so the 2026 date also matches the attribution to PauseAI. ([pauseai.info](https://pauseai.info/proposal)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago
AI Verified Verified. The source_url (pauseai.info/proposal) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from PauseAI's official proposal page. The passage describing an IAEA-inspired agency and its responsibilities (granting approval for major deployments and training runs, red-teaming and model evaluations, approving more powerful AI once safety progress is made, specifying oversight requirements, and verifying compliance via "tracking GPUs, incentivizing whistleblowers, energy monitoring, data center inspections, financial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing facility inspections, AI developer inspections, chip location tracking and chip-based reporting") matches the stored quote. Author attribution correct: this is PauseAI's own proposal on its own site. Year 2026 is appropriate (the proposal is a current/living document). The vote "for" aligns precisely with statement 451 ("Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed"): PauseAI's entire proposal is built around creating the institutional and verification capability to pause/slow frontier AI development, an unambiguously supportive (for) stance. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4mo ago
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