AI safety researcher Linch Zhang plans to drop everything to push for an AI pause
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-14
AI safety researcher Linch Zhang announced a personal update: he believes he may have less than a year left to affect the "insane, reckless, Faustian race to ASI," and plans to drop everything to push for an AI pause. "This mad race must end," he wrote in an accompanying blog post. The post was reposted by zetalyrae and others, reflecting growing alarm among parts of the AI safety community about the pace of the current race.
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