Longtime AI-pause skeptic says lab calls to slow down are making him doubt his stance
Jandrade0112 · x · 2026-09-23
In a thread with goodside, Jandrade0112 describes a shift: for years his answer to AI-pause advocates was "pause and do what?" — finite effort is better spent doing alignment work faster than advocating for more time. But frontier labs themselves now calling to pace the frontier has given him doubt: "A bit less sure now." goodside pushes back that pause messages are over-represented and "we should resist this," while another reply argues nontechnical people's comparative advantage is buying time for technical alignment.
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