Terence Tao: "We have to slow down AI. The pace is insane"
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-21
Mathematician Terence Tao calls for slowing down AI development: "the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all." He warns that we are willing to change everything without knowing what happens afterward, calling the dynamics extremely nonlinear.
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