I am for an AI pause, meaning a pause to training frontier models. I think the AI models we have now are amazing. They save an incredible amount of human labor and can help drive science and technology forward and accelerate them enormously. I reckon it would take a decade to even disseminate current AI capabilities through society and make full use of them. Driving the frontier forward from here will massively increase the risks. If we value human life, we should try to keep things at timescale that humans can react. The risks of things happening that most of us find abhorrent will increase a lot otherwise. This will mean not getting some of the benefits of AI, but on balance, I think the risks are now getting too high. Practical ways to implement this pause are: - USA to ban training of new frontier models in a suitable way - USA and China making a treaty and encouraging more countries to join - Enforcement can be via limits on hardware or large data centers, probably both I don't think that this pause should be forever. The goal is to slow down the frontier, let society catch up, and make it more resilient (better resistance to cyber and biological threats, individuals managing more of their life with AI , democratic resilience). In a few years time, we can be in a better place to take the next steps. The goal is not to stop AI and its benefits forever, it's preserving and improving human life through it, and that's only possible by slowing it down to human timescales for now.