Eric Schmidt: An AI Pause Won't Happen—Incentives Clash and There's No Way to Verify It
DavidSacks · x · 2026-09-22
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said flatly that a frontier AI pause is off the table, citing two reasons: it runs counter to the incentives of every player in the race, and even if agreed to, there is no practical way to verify compliance. The remark, shared by David Sacks, echoes the prevailing Silicon Valley position that development cannot and will not stop.
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