KOL: AI slowdown only justified if a frontier lab shows credible immediate catastrophic capability
VraserX · x · 2026-09-13
- VraserX shares a "controversial take": a major AI slowdown would only be justified if a frontier lab can demonstrate a credible and immediate catastrophic capability.
- He opposes slowing broad AI progress over hypothetical dangers imagined twenty years out.
- Core stance: the evidence threshold should be extremely high, but not infinite.
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