How Should We Implement an AI Pause? | Sudarsh Kunnavakkam
AI development is moving fast, and alignment research is not moving fast enough to deal with superintelligent models. This is a problem. One of the most propose…
How Should We Implement an AI Pause? | Sudarsh Kunnavakkam How Should We Implement an AI Pause? Published April 22, 2026 AI development is moving fast, and alignment research is not moving fast enough to deal with superintelligent models. This is a problem. One of the most proposed solutions to this is to implement and AGI pause or slowdown - make it take longer to build AGI, so alignment research can catch up in the meantime. However, it’s unclear to me how proponents of an AGI pause want this to be implemented. To be clear, I’m not arguing that passing an AGI pause is out of the realm of pos
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