Pause / Moratorium
proposedInternationalProposals to pause or slow frontier AI development until safety is better understood, offering potentially high safety benefits if implemented but facing significant coordination challenges and currently lacking adoption by major AI laboratories.
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- Status
- Proposed; no implementation
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- International