Pedro Domingos: an international AI slowdown pact's worst case is China pretending to agree
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-13
AI researcher Pedro Domingos dismissed proposals for an "international agreement to slow down AI": the best case, he says, is that China laughs at it; the worst case is that it pretends to agree. His point: any slowdown framework premised on international coordination is unenforceable in practice, a pointed critique of decelerationist AI governance ideas.
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