AI Pause Debate: Why Committees of Humans Can't Govern Superintelligence
Kyrannio · x · 2026-09-13
In a debate over pausing AI development, Kyrannio argues against superintelligence-pause proposals: incentives drive outcomes, and such frameworks can easily be gamed by the wrong parties for the wrong reasons. The real bottleneck, he says, is an infrastructure problem — until the problem is approached from a new angle rather than throwing more humans at something requiring post-human thinking, regulation will produce cash grabs and misaligned outcomes. His interlocutor favors pausing before recursive self-improvement and setting up expert councils; Kyrannio calls that fundamentally flawed.
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