The full-pause camp: MIRI calls for urgent international halt on frontier AI
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-14
Representing the "full pause" camp in the AI slowdown debate, MIRI (associated with Eliezer Yudkowsky) calls for an urgent international pause on frontier AI development, arguing that racing toward superintelligence before the science is ready likely ends in human extinction.
MIRI is pushing public outreach: contacting representatives, pledging a 100,000-person DC march, and running a daily newsletter, AI StopWatch. Its bestselling book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies distills the argument. Kindred organizations include CAIS, FLI, PauseAI, ControlAI, Palisade Research, and METR.
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