"They Were Incapable of Coordination": Manheim on CEOs' Broken AI Pause Pledges
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-02
AI risk researcher David Manheim notes that the CEOs who publicly pledged to stop AI development once certain already-true milestones occurred have all failed to do so — because, in his words, they were "incapable of coordination."
The quip captures a persistent criticism in AI governance circles: the gap between frontier labs' public pledges and their actual behavior.
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