WIRED: Enforcing an AI Slowdown Is an Unsolved Problem, New Report Warns
gleech · x · 2026-09-19
WIRED examines how an AI slowdown could actually be enforced. A new report, "Pacing the Frontier: A Research Agenda," by University of Toronto researcher Raymond Douglas argues that even if major AI companies agreed to pause, preventing anyone from quietly racing ahead remains an unsolved research problem. Ideas range from government regulation and progress metrics to interpretability, GPU tracking devices, and ceremonially destroying AI chips. Context: recent Anthropic whistleblower warnings and open support for a slowdown from Amodei, Altman, Musk, and Hassabis.
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