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Comment by Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder
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 livelihoods everywhere.
AI Verified
source
(2026)
4h ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Checked: (1) Year 2026 is correct — the FLI statement was published June 8, 2026. (2) Relevancy: highly relevant to AI governance / frontier AI slowdown, and on-topic for statement 451 about building capability for a global slowdown. (3) Author attribution: confirmed — Anthony Aguirre is FLI President and CEO and released this statement. Both sentences of the quote ("We are approaching a runaway to superintelligence that could threaten our shared human future" and "Both publicly and privately, AI companies are recognizing that a pause or slowdown in certain developmental pathways is crucial to protect lives and livelihoods everywhere") are verbatim from him. (4) Vote alignment: Aguirre voted "for" statement 451 ("Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed"); the quote supports a pause/slowdown, so "for" is correct. (5) Source URL: WebFetch returned HTTP 403, but web search surfaced the exact source page (futureoflife.org/statement/statement-anthropic-warns-of-ai-self-improvement-risks/) and confirmed both sentences appear there verbatim attributed to Aguirre.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 2h ago
replying to Anthony Aguirre