Krueger: a hardwired pause would strongly disincentivize secret AI projects

DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-10-10

Continuation of David Krueger's thread on the hardwired AI pause: at least one advantage is that it could seriously disincentivize secret AI projects — anyone trying to leapfrog the frontier would still have to compete against a huge number of nearly-as-good models, making world takeover far harder. Part of the same paper-discussion thread.

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