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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

Key insights

Many quotes on both sides describe AI as highly consequential and potentially beneficial, while differing sharply on whether a ban is the right safeguard.
International coordination is a central crux: supporters say only a treaty or verified global mechanism can work, while opponents say that same requirement makes a moratorium unrealistic or unsafe.
Within the supportive camp, some call for an outright prohibition on superintelligence, while others emphasize a temporary pause or the option to pace frontier systems when safety lags.
Several opponents of a ban still endorse safety cases, regulation, commissions, or deployment limits, suggesting disagreement over the instrument more than over whether safeguards are needed.
The quotes include politicians, nonprofit advocates, and employees or researchers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon, showing that the disagreement cuts across both policy and technical communities.

Arguments for

Loss of control risk

Proponents argue that superintelligence could exceed humans' ability to shut systems down or keep them aligned, creating risks to security, freedom, lives, and even human survival. On this view, building machines humans cannot control is an unacceptable gamble unless they can first be shown safe.

If we allow Artificial Superintelligence to be built, it could risk the security, freedom, and lives of Americans. Despite its potential deadly consequences, cutting-edge AI technology is less regulated than the average food truck. That must change. In just four years, we have go…

Greg Casar · Sep 3, 2026 · full quote
Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control. Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.

Bernie Sanders · Aug 10, 2026 · full quote
Superhuman AI is likely to arrive very soon (within 3-10 years). Technical controls and governance might allow humans to remain in control of it, but they're not on track to be ready. Think of it as playing chess against a superintelligence. You won't have a miraculous insight th…

Michael Tontchev · Jul 2026 · full quote
The UK must lead an international agreement to prohibit the development of superintelligence until it can be proven safe. If we fail, every other ambition for our country risks being swept aside. The clock is ticking.

Luciana Berger · Jul 23, 2026 · full quote
That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson · Mar 24, 2026 · full quote
If anyone, anywhere builds a superhuman artificial intelligence using present methods, the most likely outcome is catastrophe.

Joe Rogero · May 12, 2026 · full quote

Pace exceeds readiness

Supporters say frontier AI is advancing extremely quickly, with automated AI research and rapidly improving models shrinking the time available for alignment, governance, and social adaptation. A pause or ban is presented as a way to let democracy, safety research, and oversight catch up before capabilities outrun understanding.

Frontier AI capabilities are advancing rapidly, and the pace of progress is itself accelerating. We see this directly in our evaluation work. CyberGym and ExploitGym show that frontier AI agents are now capable of discovering and exploiting real-world software vulnerabilities, w…

Dawn Song · Jul 2026 · full quote
In the span of four years, we have gone from people having their first experience of an Al that could understand language, to Al that is performing superhuman feats of software engineering, making frontier math breakthroughs, and accelerating scientific research. Progress has sho…

Shantanu Jain · Jul 2026 · full quote
I lead pretraining at Anthropic, which is responsible for training the base models behind Claude. Every month, more work is done by the models themselves: infrastructure implementation, code optimization, and experiment design and analysis. This has drastically altered how we wor…

Nicholas Joseph · Jul 2026 · full quote
We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

Anthropic Institute · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
We need to slow down the development of AI to give democracy, to give ordinary people, a chance to catch up.

Bernie Sanders · Mar 24, 2026 · full quote
It is better to slow down a bit to lay a solid foundation for safety, than to seek quick success and instant benefits that might lead human society into an irreversible and perilous situation.

Zeng Yi · Feb 12, 2026 · full quote

Need global coordination

Many supporters argue that no company or country will slow down alone because of commercial and geopolitical race pressures. They therefore call for internationally coordinated, enforceable monitoring, verification, and treaties to halt or pace superintelligence development together.

We recommend an international deal between all major world powers to avoid a dangerous race to superintelligence.

AI Futures Project · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
Future AI will be extraordinarily powerful compared to anything that exists today, and dealing with this future power will require unprecedented measures, such as the ones described here. The problem statement is real. This works only if it is done internationally, and it has to …

Ilya Sutskever · Jul 2026 · full quote
We call on the Government to seek a global agreement that bans the development of artificial superintelligence and to encourage the establishment of a globally accepted safe path for developing advanced AI, ensuring strong safety standards and international coordination.

Lord Simon Woolley · Mar 20, 2026 · full quote
Second, Canada should take the lead in uniting a coalition of countries focused on preventing the development of superintelligent AI through an international ban. This ban could be enforced via a mutual monitoring and verification regime.

Samuel Buteau · Feb 23, 2026 · full quote
The world is locked in a deadly race towards an intelligence explosion, where AI’s ability to create better AIs reaches a critical point, just like a runaway nuclear chain reaction. Going slower would give us much-needed time to make it go well, but no individual actor is willing…

Leo Gao · Jul 2026 · full quote
We can't do this unless everyone does. It needs to be global. Right now we have no way to do that. We need to build a way for us to all slow down.

Saul Reynolds-Haertle · Jul 2026 · full quote

Benefits without superintelligence

Another pro-ban argument is that society can still reap major benefits from controllable AI tools without pursuing autonomous smarter-than-human systems. In these quotes, superintelligence is described as unnecessary for helping people and as a threat to human dignity, identity, or civilization itself.

Superintelligence would likely break the very operating system of human civilization – and is completely unnecessary. If we instead focus on building controllable AI tools to help real people today, we can far more reliably and safely realize AI’s incredible benefits.

Yuval Noah Harari · Mar 27, 2026 · full quote
To get the most from what AI has to offer mankind, there is simply no need to reach for the unknowable and highly risky goal of superintelligence, which is by far a frontier too far. By definition this would result in a power that we could neither understand nor control.

Stephen Fry · Mar 27, 2026 · full quote
We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a choice masquerading as fate. By …

Anthony Aguirre · 2025 · full quote
We should rapidly develop powerful AI tools that help cure diseases and solve practical problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that nobody knows how to control. Creating superintelligent machines is not only unacceptably dangerous and immoral, but also completel…

Johnnie Moore · 2025 · full quote
Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits we want from narrow AI, systems…

Roman V. Yampolskiy · 2024 · full quote
AI offers extraordinary promise to advance human rights, tackle inequality, and protect our planet, but the pursuit of superintelligence threatens to undermine the very foundations of our common humanity. We must act with both ambition and responsibility by choosing the path of h…

Mary Robinson · Mar 27, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Innovation and prosperity costs

Opponents argue that banning more capable AI would sacrifice medical, scientific, and productivity gains, suppress inquiry, and damage national interests. In this view, society should harness AI's momentum and let innovation continue while safety work proceeds in parallel.

Banning advances in artificial intelligence would be a profound mistake. More capable AI systems could accelerate medical breakthroughs, advance scientific research, improve productivity, and lower costs for American families. With policymakers focused on affordability, banning o…

Daniel Castro · Sep 3, 2026 · full quote
We’ve already heard calls, including in Parliament, to ‘Pause AI’. I think doing so would be a double betrayal. A betrayal of British talent and British interests.

Liz Kendall · Apr 28, 2026 · full quote
I hope that, when the Minister responds, she will confirm that the Government have no plan to suppress the development of ASI. Inquiry and discovery are deeply ingrained in the human psyche and the AI revolution we are living through should certainly not be suppressed.

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote
What is needed is not to slow innovation but to harness it — to channel AI’s momentum toward outcomes that reinforce trust, safety and societal well-being.

Takayuki Morita · Jan 21, 2026 · full quote
This is a formula for outright stagnation. [...] But rather than trying to anticipate every risk, regulators should let entrepreneurship flourish while efforts to monitor and improve AI safety proceed in parallel.

The Editorial Board · Apr 5, 2023 · full quote

Unenforceable and asymmetric

A recurring objection is that a moratorium would be impossible to enforce globally and dangerous if observed only by responsible actors while rivals or bad actors continued. Some quotes therefore treat a one-sided pause as strategically worse than continued competition.

[...] the idea of stopping or even substantially slowing [...] is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it [...] authoritarian countries would simply keep going.

Dario Amodei · Jan 2026 · full quote
One example—potentially the most meaningful threshold articulated thus far—would be AI systems that outperform humans in making new breakthroughs in AI and developing increasingly more powerful AI systems. AI systems with such research and development capabilities would potential…

Jim Banks · May 14, 2026 · full quote
My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable.

Lord Tarassenko · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote
For me, a one-sided moratorium which ties our hands behind our backs while the likes of North Korea and the al-Qaedas of the world crack on: no, I am afraid that that worries me even more.

Lord Markham · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote
The conclusion is sobering: a global stop to the development of superintelligent AI seems impossible.

Job van den Berg · Feb 1, 2026 · full quote

Regulation over suppression

Several critics reject suppressing development itself and prefer commissions, safety cases, voluntary or formal testing, and regulations that allow innovation to continue. They frame the issue as building boundaries and oversight rather than banning research into advanced AI.

I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the United Kingdom, to establish our ow…

Lord Patel · 2026 · full quote
My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commission to investigate the ethica…

Lionel Tarassenko · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote
My opinion is that the moratorium that we should focus on is actually deployment until we have good safety cases. I don't know that we need to pause that particular project, but I do think it's emphasis on focusing more on AI safety, on trustworthy, reliable AI is exactly right. …

Gary Marcus · May 16, 2023 · full quote
We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.

Jared Kaplan · Feb 24, 2026 · full quote

Costs of open-ended delay

Some safety-minded opponents argue that delay also has costs, including foregone benefits and other background risks, so choices to pause or unpause should track marginal costs and benefits rather than absolute standards. This perspective favors restraint and perhaps a brief pause nearer deployment, but not an indefinite ban until consensus.

But even in settings that assume significant idealization, the fact that pauses can incur ongoing background existential risk means that very high absolute standards here can lead us astray: the decision to pause or unpause needs to remain attentive to marginal costs and benefits…

Joe Carlsmith · Mar 19, 2026 · full quote
That is, I think 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 – and this despite the potential costs of delaying the benefits o…

Joe Carlsmith · Mar 19, 2026 · full quote
Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentials, and concave QALY utilities…

Nick Bostrom · 2026 · full quote
Pausing frontier AI development will not solve the problems its supporters claim it will solve. If anything, it risks making several of them worse.

Jay Burstein · Mar 16, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Threshold-based slowdown

Some quotes support having the option to slow or refuse launches when capabilities reach critical levels without adequate mitigations, but do not describe current development as requiring an immediate blanket ban. They emphasize contingent pacing around dangerous thresholds and automated AI research.

If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.

Helen King · Jul 16, 2026 · full quote
While I don't believe the pace of current AI capabilities development is *yet* dangerous, it's important to have the option to slow down in case we need it. Further, accelerating AI R&D over the next couple years could make the pace of progress dangerous. I've seen how the relent…

Jeremy Hadfield · Jul 2026 · full quote
As someone who works on recursive self-improvement and automated evaluation, I sign this because the diagnosis is right and the ask is refreshingly humble: pace, not pause. The phrase that matters is "automating AI research": that's the point where systems start improving themsel…

Leo He · Jul 2026 · full quote
We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

Anthropic Institute · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote

Guard against overreach

Other nuanced voices warn that pacing tools could be harmful if poorly designed, overly expansive, or captured by a few labs. They support researching coordination in advance, while stressing limits, transparency, and resistance to regulatory moats or excessive concentration of power.

I believe that attempting to deliberately pace AI development will be extremely difficult, and could do more harm than good if done without proper care. However, I am signing this statement because, if an attempt at pacing does occur, it would be better for it to have been method…

Danny Sawyer · Jul 2026 · full quote
Many proposals for a slowdown or pause concentrate power — they centralize control of AI into a few hands and leave us worse off. I think we can do better. I’m signing because I believe we may need mechanisms to coordinate AI progress in the future, and inventing it in a crisis i…

Luke Drago · Jul 2026 · full quote
Supportive of this, but we should be careful not to use RSI narratives to create a regulatory moat. These risks need to be properly quantified, more openly, not derived from big labs narratives only!

Elie Bakouch · Jul 2026 · full quote
I don't know what form such tools should take, nor whether automated AI R&D is the right or only thing that the U.S. government should develop increased capacity to understand and possibly pace, but this is worth serious consideration; however I hope such governance tools will no…

Joshua Achiam · Jul 2026 · full quote

Deployment-first caution

Another middle position shifts the emphasis from halting research to requiring thoughtful rollouts, good safety cases, and more safety work before deployment. It treats responsible deployment and safety investment as the immediate lever rather than a categorical stop on development.

My opinion is that the moratorium that we should focus on is actually deployment until we have good safety cases. I don't know that we need to pause that particular project, but I do think it's emphasis on focusing more on AI safety, on trustworthy, reliable AI is exactly right. …

Gary Marcus · May 16, 2023 · full quote
We’ve reached a point in the maturity of this technology where increasingly thoughtful rollouts must become a prerequisite. While I remain incredibly optimistic about the benefits AI has delivered, and will undoubtedly continue to provide, I believe we should hold space for cauti…

Bryant McCombs · Jul 2026 · full quote
Across the industry, commercial pressures in the AI race continue to compound, urging everyone forward at increasing speed. Meanwhile, safety receives reactionary, well intentioned, momentary attention before it's right back to the race again. Slow down does not mean decrease pac…

Grace Atwood · Jul 2026 · full quote
If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.

Helen King · Jul 16, 2026 · full quote

The quotes show a debate shaped by two overlapping questions: how dangerous superintelligence could become, and whether a halt can be implemented without unacceptable strategic or economic costs. Supporters mostly press for preemptive international limits before control is lost, while opponents mostly argue for continued development combined with other forms of safety governance.

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Yoshua Bengio
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This suggests pacing the advances: not training or deploying AIs without a strong safety case that convinces independent experts.
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Jacob Coxon
AI safety researcher at Anthropic who publicly warned about risks from frontier AI development.

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Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
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Greg Casar
U.S. Representative from Texas; Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

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If we allow Artificial Superintelligence to be built, it could risk the security, freedom, and lives of Americans. Despite its potential deadly consequences, cutting-edge AI technology is less regulated than the average food truck. That must change. ...
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Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont

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Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control. Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.
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Luciana Berger

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The UK must lead an international agreement to prohibit the development of superintelligence until it can be proven safe. If we fail, every other ambition for our country risks being swept aside. The clock is ticking.
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Helen King
Vice President of Responsibility at Google DeepMind.

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If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.
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Named collective policy scenario published by the AI Futures Project in 2026, advocating an internationally verified slowdown of frontier AI development.

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We recommend an international deal to avoid a dangerous race to superintelligence.
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AI Futures Project
Nonprofit AI forecasting research group behind AI 2027 and Plan A; led by Daniel Kokotajlo.

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We recommend an international deal between all major world powers to avoid a dangerous race to superintelligence.
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Daniel Kokotajlo
AI Futures Project founder

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If you delay the advent of superintelligence, then that gives society more time to prepare and more time to solve the various problems that it represents.
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Alex Sobel
Labour and Co-operative MP for Leeds Central and Headingley; proposer of the 2026 "kill switch" amendment (NC12) to the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

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That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision to prohibit the development, deployment and operation of artificial superintelligence systems; to establish monitoring and control powers in respect of such systems; and for connected purposes.
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Thomas Holland
Policy analyst at the Nakada Foundation to Save Humanity, writing on AI governance and superintelligence risk.

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The Nakada Foundation is building the political case for a binding international agreement to halt the race to superintelligence before it is built.
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Mike Lambert
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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There are a wide diversity of opinions on where AI progress goes next and what the future looks like, but regardless of one's beliefs, the option to control the pace of progress if we end up in one of the bad scenarios seems like an incredibly valuab...
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Alex Cloud
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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A year ago, I wrote my own code and used Claude to propose additions and find answers to my questions. Now, I don’t write code. I give high-level instructions to Claude and it runs experiments to test ideas for me at a pace I never could have achieve...
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Andrew Stewart
Manager at Anthropic; signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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Things are not only moving fast but accelerating and our future is getting shaped by a race that currently has no limits.
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Sam Kennedy
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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Let's work together to build this technology safely and responsibly!
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Nicholas Clegg
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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AI is such a powerful and useful tool, but we have been seeing the negative impacts that it is having across society. It is critical and urgent that we take take intentional and thoughtful steps forward, keeping in mind what is best for all, as we fu...
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Thomas Neil James Shadwell
Member of Technical Staff in Security at OpenAI; AI security professional.

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We must all seriously consider the lead-time required for defenders to be ready for the frontier.
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Bryant McCombs
GTM professional at OpenAI; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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We’ve reached a point in the maturity of this technology where increasingly thoughtful rollouts must become a prerequisite. While I remain incredibly optimistic about the benefits AI has delivered, and will undoubtedly continue to provide, I believe ...
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Angel Brodin
OpenAI employee and signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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AI will reshape humanity, but its direction is not set in stone; it is ours to shape with the care and conviction that humanity’s future deserves.
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Ravin Kumar
Senior Researcher at Google; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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I believe this is a technology that can, and already has, shaped humanity as a whole. Because of that a joint international effort is the only possible way.
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Alejandro Xoconostle
Network Engineer at Meta; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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A transformative shift is coming. Regardless of whether we feel optimistic or pessimistic about it, our responsibility is to take every potential outcome seriously through collective monitoring and shared guidance
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Elie Bakouch
AI researcher at Prime Intellect; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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Supportive of this, but we should be careful not to use RSI narratives to create a regulatory moat. These risks need to be properly quantified, more openly, not derived from big labs narratives only!
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Edward Hughes
Chief Scientist at Inherent; AI researcher.

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As Melvin Kranzberg wrote, technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. Achieving societal benefit depends on understanding the interdependent ways in which many humans use advanced AI systems in concert, understanding that takes time to ac...
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Christian Ryan
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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As a foreign national, I see a US-supported effort as existential, not only for the liberties of the free world but for the prosperity of all.
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Klaudia Krawiecka
Security Engineer, Frontier Risk Evals, at Meta.

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AI's potential to improve the world is real, but only if we build the security and oversight mechanisms that keep pace with its capabilities. I signed because I believe we owe future generations a technology that was deployed with intention, not just...
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Darshan Kalola
Applied AI Engineer at Anthropic; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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There is intense commercial pressure to win the AI race. Ensuring safety often requires making tradeoffs that hurt commercial interests. Therefore, I think its a good idea for better coordination between labs so we can build this technology safely, a...
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Neel Redkar
Standard Intelligence employee; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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Internal deployment is especially important to regulate because misalignment, an unsolved technical problem of a model failing to follow the full breadth of human instruction, poses a major risk. Misuse of AI capabilities in chemistry, biology, and m...
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Yash Vanjani
Senior Research Engineer for Pretraining Infrastructure at Meta; commenter on the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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AI has become so good that it has got quite easy to do LLM research and go from a research idea to training a model in 2-3 weeks compared to what would have taken 6 months without AI. Every 3months there is a new model which is much better than bef...
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Donald J. Trump
U.S. President (2025–present)

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We will only encourage super intelligence. We’re going to encourage it, not rein it in.
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Daniel Castro
Director, Center for Data Innovation

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Banning advances in artificial intelligence would be a profound mistake. More capable AI systems could accelerate medical breakthroughs, advance scientific research, improve productivity, and lower costs for American families. With policymakers focus...
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