Schmidt: there will be no AI pause — incentives and verifiability make it impossible
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-22
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says an "AI pause" will not happen, for two reasons: it runs counter to the incentives of every player in the field, and compliance would be impossible to verify. The statement pushes back on calls to slow frontier AI development, arguing coordinated stagnation is not feasible given real-world incentive structures.
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