AI development should be paused as soon as possible

Artificial intelligence research, products, and impact across society.

The frameworks, policies, and standards that guide the responsible development, deployment, and oversight of artificial intelligence systems.

Policy debates over how governments should oversee and restrict frontier AI development.

The field of preventing harm from advanced AI systems, spanning alignment, evaluation, and decisions to slow or withhold models whose capabilities outpace their safeguards.

Proposals to pause or slow the development of the most advanced AI systems.

The September 2026 debate sparked by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier", which argues that AI development should be deliberately slowed so that safety, alignment and interpretability can keep pace, and sets out a three-step plan spanning company commitments, coordination among democracies, and US-China agreements.