Miles Brundage: Nail AI audits and any needed slowdown takes care of itself
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-16
Former OpenAI policy lead Miles Brundage responded to questions about why his proposals don't include a pause/slowdown for AI development.
- He argues that nailing the audit piece — high standards, strong penalties for non-compliance, and mechanisms that make violations apparent — is a prerequisite for any pause/slowdown to work well anyway.
- The other measures are needed regardless, so we don't have to pick a single action or framing.
- If these are truly nailed down, he says, any needed slowdown largely takes care of itself; whether it should be explicitly targeted remains an open question.
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