Krueger's pause paper leaves many policy knobs for an international agreement

DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-10-10

Part of David Krueger's thread: the paper outlines one implementation of a hardwired pause, but leaves many "knobs" for policymakers to tune toward an international agreement. As noted in the quoted prior post, the plan captures most benefits of dismantling compute while being far more palatable — existing models keep being deployed at scale, so the immediate economic hit is much smaller.

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