Ex-UK AI Safety Institute Chief Scientist Calls for Unilateral Pause on Frontier AI

Geoffrey Irving, former chief scientist at the UK AI Safety Institute, urged Anthropic or OpenAI to unilaterally halt frontier AI progress. AI safety researchers debated the prisoner's-dilemma narrative, with some criticizing Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" stance as inconsistent with Anthropic's actual behavior.

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