David Krueger: 'Pause AI' means stopping more powerful general-purpose AI, which doesn't exist yet
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-24
Cambridge AI safety researcher David Krueger clarifies a common conflation: AI is not one single technology. When people talk about "pausing AI," they mean stopping the development of more powerful general-purpose AI — which by definition isn't "here to stay" yet, because these systems don't even exist.
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