OpenAI researcher Geoffrey Irving: Paul's influence could buy time via unilateral AI pauses
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-09-10
OpenAI researcher Geoffrey Irving says he hopes Paul's influence at OpenAI can "buy us more time" — through further unilateral pauses, and through unilateral pauses coalescing into coordinated, even international, pauses. He frames Paul's statement as a signal of urgency: Paul's day job is technical alignment research aimed at acceptably low risk, but capabilities are moving very fast.
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