Merrett advocates for safety-paced AI development, halts top training run
repligate · x · 2026-08-19
- Stance: Merrett advocates for "pacing" over "pausing" AI development, arguing that confidence in safety should set the pace. Signed the "Pacing the Frontier" initiative.
- Actions: Temporarily slowed some frontier training runs to strengthen security and monitoring. The largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold.
- Call to Action: Urgently needs tools for labs and countries to coordinate on pacing. Committing to sharing learnings as the approach evolves.
- Support: SkyeSharkie agrees, noting pacing prevents blindly shoving massive amounts of outsourced training data into runs.
Related event: Anthropic Pauses Some Frontier Training to Strengthen Safety(3 posts)→
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