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AI Pause De­bate (2023)

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The AI Pause Debate was a collection of posts on the costs and benefits of pausing or slowing some kinds of AI progress, plus some relevant advocacy and policy considerations. It occurred in September 2023.

The primary posts in the debate were collected in this sequence.

De­bate se­ries: should we push for a pause on the de­vel­op­ment of AI?

Ben_West🔸Sep 8, 2023, 4:29 PM
252 points
58 comments1 min readEA link

Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate

Scott AlexanderOct 10, 2023, 3:34 PM
109 points
20 comments14 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

The Case for AI Safety Ad­vo­cacy to the Public

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Sep 20, 2023, 12:03 PM
257 points
58 comments14 min readEA link

Paus­ing AI might be good policy, but it’s bad politics

Stephen ClareOct 23, 2023, 1:36 PM
162 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(unfoldingatlas.substack.com)

Com­ments on Man­heim’s “What’s in a Pause?”

RobBensingerSep 18, 2023, 12:16 PM
74 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Policy ideas for miti­gat­ing AI risk

Thomas LarsenSep 16, 2023, 10:31 AM
121 points
16 comments10 min readEA link

Timelines are short, p(doom) is high: a global stop to fron­tier AI de­vel­op­ment un­til x-safety con­sen­sus is our only rea­son­able hope

Greg_ColbournOct 12, 2023, 11:24 AM
73 points
85 comments9 min readEA link

It’s not ob­vi­ous that get­ting dan­ger­ous AI later is better

Aaron_ScherSep 23, 2023, 5:35 AM
23 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

The pos­si­bil­ity of an in­definite AI pause

Matthew_BarnettSep 19, 2023, 12:28 PM
90 points
73 comments15 min readEA link

We are not alone: many com­mu­ni­ties want to stop Big Tech from scal­ing un­safe AI

RemmeltSep 22, 2023, 5:38 PM
28 points
30 comments4 min readEA link

AI Pause Will Likely Backfire

Nora BelroseSep 16, 2023, 10:21 AM
141 points
167 comments13 min readEA link

Mud­dling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia

Jeffrey HeningerOct 21, 2023, 9:30 AM
87 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

How to think about slow­ing AI

Zach Stein-PerlmanSep 17, 2023, 11:23 AM
74 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Aim for con­di­tional pauses

AnonResearcherMajorAILabSep 25, 2023, 1:05 AM
100 points
42 comments12 min readEA link

How could a mora­to­rium fail?

DavidmanheimSep 22, 2023, 3:11 PM
48 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

What’s in a Pause?

DavidmanheimSep 16, 2023, 10:13 AM
73 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Stu­art J. Rus­sell on “should we press pause on AI?”

KaleemSep 18, 2023, 1:19 PM
32 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(podcasts.apple.com)

AI is cen­tral­iz­ing by de­fault; let’s not make it worse

Quintin PopeSep 21, 2023, 1:35 PM
53 points
16 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Com­mon re­but­tal to “paus­ing” or reg­u­lat­ing AI

sammyboizMay 22, 2024, 4:21 AM
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Protest, Melbourne, Aus­tralia

Mark BrownJan 17, 2025, 2:55 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Paus­ing AI vs De­growth in rich countries

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Sep 23, 2023, 7:09 AM
−2 points
53 comments1 min readEA link

Unions for AI safety?

dEAsignSep 24, 2023, 12:13 AM
7 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

“We can Prevent AI Disaster Like We Prevented Nu­clear Catas­tro­phe”

PeterSep 23, 2023, 8:36 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(time.com)

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

Janet PauketatSep 25, 2023, 6:09 PM
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Care­less talk on US-China AI com­pe­ti­tion? (and crit­i­cism of CAIS cov­er­age)

Oliver SourbutSep 20, 2023, 12:46 PM
52 points
19 comments1 min readEA link
(www.oliversourbut.net)

Go Mo­bi­lize? Les­sons from GM Protests for Paus­ing AI

Charlie HarrisonOct 24, 2023, 3:01 PM
48 points
11 comments31 min readEA link

Ly­ing is Cowardice, not Strategy

Connor LeahyOct 25, 2023, 5:59 AM
−5 points
15 comments5 min readEA link
(cognition.cafe)

The In­ter­na­tional PauseAI Protest: Ac­tivism un­der uncertainty

Joseph MillerOct 12, 2023, 5:36 PM
129 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

We’re Not Ready: thoughts on “paus­ing” and re­spon­si­ble scal­ing policies

Holden KarnofskyOct 27, 2023, 3:19 PM
150 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Effi­cacy of AI Ac­tivism: Have We Ever Said No?

Charlie HarrisonOct 27, 2023, 4:52 PM
78 points
25 comments20 min readEA link

The “tech­nol­ogy” bucket error

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Sep 21, 2023, 12:59 AM
33 points
10 comments4 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)
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