Slowing down AI

TagLast edit: 25 Apr 2023 17:11 UTC by Dane Valerie

Slowing down AI development has been proposed as a policy intervention to reduce AGI risk by increasing the time it takes for society to develop AGI.

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

Ben_West🔸8 Sep 2023 16:29 UTC

252 points

58 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s think about slowing down AI

Katja_Grace23 Dec 2022 19:56 UTC

339 points

9 comments38 min readEA link

Leverage points for a pause

Remmelt28 Aug 2024 9:21 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Request to AGI organizations: Share your views on pausing AI progress

Akash11 Apr 2023 17:30 UTC

85 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Updates from Campaign for AI Safety

Jolyn Khoo31 Oct 2023 5:46 UTC

14 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

An AI crash is our best bet for restricting AI

Remmelt11 Oct 2024 2:12 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Unions for AI safety?

dEAsign24 Sep 2023 0:13 UTC

7 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

 “Near Midnight in Suicide City”

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 6 Dec 2024 19:54 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Against Aschenbrenner: How ‘Situational Awareness’ constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity

GideonF15 Jul 2024 16:21 UTC

238 points

22 comments21 min readEA link

FLI open letter: Pause giant AI experiments

Zach Stein-Perlman29 Mar 2023 4:04 UTC

220 points

38 comments2 min readEA link

(futureoflife.org)

Cruxes on US lead for some domestic AI regulation

Zach Stein-Perlman10 Sep 2023 18:00 UTC

20 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

EA Anywhere Discussion: The case for slowing down AI

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸31 Mar 2023 6:43 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Apply to CEEALAR to do AGI moratorium work

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 26 Jul 2023 21:24 UTC

62 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

UN Secretary-General recognises existential threat from AI

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 15 Jun 2023 17:03 UTC

58 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Why Stop AI is barricading OpenAI

Remmelt14 Oct 2024 7:12 UTC

−19 points

28 comments6 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Unveiling the American Public Opinion on AI Moratorium and Government Intervention: The Impact of Media Exposure

Otto8 May 2023 10:49 UTC

28 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

Ex-OpenAI researcher says OpenAI mass-violated copyright law

Remmelt24 Oct 2024 1:00 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(suchir.net)

Is it time for a pause?

Kelsey Piper6 Apr 2023 11:48 UTC

103 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

Some reasons to start a project to stop harmful AI

Remmelt22 Aug 2024 16:23 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

A note about differential technological development

So8res24 Jul 2022 23:41 UTC

58 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

OpenAI’s o1 tried to avoid being shut down, and lied about it, in evals

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 6 Dec 2024 15:25 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(www.transformernews.ai)

Thoughts on yesterday’s UN Security Council meeting on AI

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 19 Jul 2023 16:46 UTC

31 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Partial Transcript of Recent Senate Hearing Discussing AI X-Risk

Daniel_Eth27 Jul 2023 9:16 UTC

150 points

2 comments22 min readEA link

(medium.com)

Navigating AI Risks (NAIR) #1: Slowing Down AI

simeon_c14 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(navigatingairisks.substack.com)

A moral backlash against AI will probably slow down AGI development

Geoffrey Miller31 May 2023 21:31 UTC

147 points

22 comments14 min readEA link

Updates from Campaign for AI Safety

Jolyn Khoo7 Aug 2023 6:09 UTC

32 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

Which side of the AI safety community are you in?

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 23 Oct 2025 14:23 UTC

9 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

We’re not prepared for an AI market crash

Remmelt1 Apr 2025 4:33 UTC

27 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

List of petitions against OpenAI’s for-profit move

Remmelt25 Apr 2025 10:03 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Slowing down AI progress?

Eleni_A26 Jul 2022 8:46 UTC

16 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Some quotes from Tuesday’s Senate hearing on AI

Daniel_Eth17 May 2023 12:13 UTC

105 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Funding circle aimed at slowing down AI—looking for participants

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 25 Jan 2024 23:58 UTC

92 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: PauseAI US needs money! Ask founder/Exec Dir Holly Elmore anything for 11/19

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸11 Nov 2024 23:51 UTC

91 points

57 comments4 min readEA link

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

EliezerYudkowsky9 Apr 2023 15:53 UTC

50 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

Update from Campaign for AI Safety

Nik Samoylov1 Jun 2023 10:46 UTC

22 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

P(doom|AGI) is high: why the default outcome of AGI is doom

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 2 May 2023 10:40 UTC

13 points

28 comments3 min readEA link

Giving away copies of Uncontrollable by Darren McKee

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 14 Dec 2023 17:00 UTC

39 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Discussion Group: Slowing Down AI Progress

Group Organizer12 Jan 2023 4:52 UTC

4 points

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Why I’m doing PauseAI

Joseph Miller30 Apr 2024 16:21 UTC

147 points

36 comments4 min readEA link

The state of AI in different countries — an overview

Lizka14 Sep 2023 10:37 UTC

68 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

(aisafetyfundamentals.com)

Pause House, Blackpool

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 13 Oct 2025 11:36 UTC

79 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(gregcolbourn.substack.com)

Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time

Akash5 Nov 2022 20:43 UTC

107 points

31 comments14 min readEA link

OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)

Remmelt31 Mar 2025 4:17 UTC

0 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb

Remmelt31 Mar 2025 3:52 UTC

10 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

Katja Grace: Let’s think about slowing down AI

peterhartree23 Dec 2022 0:57 UTC

84 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com)

Corporate campaigns work: a key learning for AI Safety

Jamie_Harris17 Aug 2023 21:35 UTC

72 points

12 comments6 min readEA link

Crash scenario 1: Rapidly mobilise for a 2025 AI crash

Remmelt11 Apr 2025 6:54 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Data Taxation: A Proposal for Slowing Down AGI Progress

Per Ivar Friborg11 Apr 2023 17:27 UTC

42 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Updates from Campaign for AI Safety

Jolyn Khoo16 Jun 2023 9:45 UTC

15 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

Deconfusing Pauses: Long Term Moratorium vs Slowing AI

GideonF4 Aug 2024 11:32 UTC

17 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

AGI rising: why we are in a new era of acute risk and increasing public awareness, and what to do now

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 2 May 2023 10:17 UTC

68 points

35 comments13 min readEA link

An Update On The Campaign For AI Safety Dot Org

yanni kyriacos5 May 2023 0:19 UTC

26 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Protest against Meta’s irreversible proliferation (Sept 29, San Francisco)

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸19 Sep 2023 23:40 UTC

114 points

32 comments1 min readEA link

“Slower tech development” can be about ordering, gradualness, or distance from now

MichaelA🔸14 Nov 2021 20:58 UTC

47 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

US public opinion of AI policy and risk

Jamie E12 May 2023 13:22 UTC

111 points

7 comments15 min readEA link

Who wants to bet me $25k at 1:7 odds that there won’t be an AI market crash in the next year?

Remmelt8 Apr 2025 8:31 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Map of all 40 copyright suits v. AI in U.S.

Remmelt26 Mar 2025 7:57 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(chatgptiseatingtheworld.com)

Hunger strike in front of Anthropic by one guy concerned about AI risk

Remmelt5 Sep 2025 4:00 UTC

19 points

18 comments1 min readEA link

The costs of caution

Kelsey Piper1 May 2023 20:04 UTC

112 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

AI 2027: What Superintelligence Looks Like (Linkpost)

Manuel Allgaier11 Apr 2025 10:31 UTC

51 points

3 comments42 min readEA link

(ai-2027.com)

The Case For Civil Disobedience For The AI Movement

Murali Thoppil24 Apr 2023 13:07 UTC

16 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(murali42e.substack.com)

Safety-concerned EAs should prioritize AI governance over alignment

sammyboiz🔸11 Jun 2024 15:47 UTC

61 points

20 comments1 min readEA link

Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI, AI Expert Surveys And Estimating AI Risk

Michaël Trazzi16 Sep 2022 18:00 UTC

48 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

(theinsideview.ai)

Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy

Michael Huang13 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC

92 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Anthropic is being sued for copying books to train Claude

Remmelt31 Aug 2024 2:57 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky

jacquesthibs29 Mar 2023 23:30 UTC

212 points

75 comments3 min readEA link

(time.com)

The History, Epistemology and Strategy of Technological Restraint, and lessons for AI (short essay)

MMMaas10 Aug 2022 11:00 UTC

90 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

(verfassungsblog.de)

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

We are fighting a shared battle (a call for a different approach to AI Strategy)

GideonF16 Mar 2023 14:37 UTC

59 points

11 comments15 min readEA link

Beware of the new scaling paradigm

JohanEA19 Sep 2024 17:03 UTC

9 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Introducing StakeOut.AI

Harry Luk17 Feb 2024 0:21 UTC

52 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

The International PauseAI Protest: Activism under uncertainty

Joseph Miller12 Oct 2023 17:36 UTC

136 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

Remmelt9 Mar 2024 12:22 UTC

55 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Updates from Campaign for AI Safety

Jolyn Khoo30 Aug 2023 5:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

Lying is Cowardice, not Strategy

Connor Leahy25 Oct 2023 5:59 UTC

−5 points

15 comments5 min readEA link

(cognition.cafe)

[Crosspost] AI Regulation May Be More Important Than AI Alignment For Existential Safety

Otto24 Aug 2023 16:01 UTC

14 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How bad would AI progress need to be for us to think general technological progress is also bad?

Jim Buhler6 Jul 2024 18:44 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Mess AI – deliberate corruption of the training data to prevent superintelligence

turchin17 Oct 2025 9:23 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Updates from Campaign for AI Safety

Jolyn Khoo27 Sep 2023 2:44 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.campaignforaisafety.org)

Efficacy of AI Activism: Have We Ever Said No?

Charlie Harrison27 Oct 2023 16:52 UTC

80 points

25 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] Launching Applications for the Global AI Safety Fellowship 2025!

Impact Academy27 Nov 2024 15:33 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

[Crosspost] An AI Pause Is Humanity’s Best Bet For Preventing Extinction (TIME)

Otto24 Jul 2023 10:18 UTC

36 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

(time.com)

OPEC for a slow AGI takeoff

vyrax21 Apr 2023 10:53 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

IABIED Review—An Unfortunate Miss

Darren McKee18 Sep 2025 22:39 UTC

20 points

2 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Am I taking crazy pills? Why aren’t EAs advocating for a pause on AI capabilities?

yanni kyriacos15 Aug 2023 23:29 UTC

18 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

A Reply to MacAskill on “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

RobBensinger27 Sep 2025 23:03 UTC

9 points

7 comments17 min readEA link

Reducing global AI competition through the Commerce Control List and Immigration reform: a dual-pronged approach

ben.smith3 Sep 2024 5:28 UTC

15 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

Statement on AI Extinction—Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures

Center for AI Safety30 May 2023 9:06 UTC

429 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

(www.safe.ai)

Go Mobilize? Lessons from GM Protests for Pausing AI

Charlie Harrison24 Oct 2023 15:01 UTC

54 points

11 comments31 min readEA link

Is principled mass-outreach possible, for AGI X-risk?

Nicholas Kross21 Jan 2024 17:45 UTC

12 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

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