AGI leader's 2010s plan — build a lead, then unilaterally slow down for safety — never worked
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-11-09
SOhEigeartaigh recalls an AGI company leader in the 2010s whose plan was to build as much of a global lead over all other companies as possible, then use that lead to unilaterally slow down just before superintelligence to make time for safety. The leader was very confident; it did not work out. The author argues that variants of this are increasingly what all frontier-company leaders who profess to take AGI risk seriously actually have as a plan — but it was never a good plan.
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