Slowing Down AI

TagLast edit: Dec 30, 2024, 10:16 AM by Dakara

Slowing Down AI refers to efforts and proposals aimed at reducing the pace of artificial intelligence advancement to allow more time for safety research and governance frameworks. These initiatives can include voluntary industry commitments, regulatory measures, or coordinated pauses in development of advanced AI systems.

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lcApr 5, 2022, 12:19 AM

680 points

138 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Let’s think about slowing down AI

KatjaGraceDec 22, 2022, 5:40 PM

552 points

182 comments38 min readLW link 3 reviews

(aiimpacts.org)

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

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 8, 2023, 12:36 AM

268 points

44 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Slowing AI: Reading list

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 17, 2023, 2:30 PM

47 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Slowing AI: Foundations

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 17, 2023, 2:30 PM

45 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

Leverage points for a pause

RemmeltAug 28, 2024, 9:21 AM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The public supports regulating AI for safety

Zach Stein-PerlmanFeb 17, 2023, 4:10 AM

114 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

List of requests for an AI slowdown/halt.

Cleo NardoApr 14, 2023, 11:55 PM

46 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

AI Summer Harvest

Cleo NardoApr 4, 2023, 3:35 AM

130 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Cruxes on US lead for some domestic AI regulation

Zach Stein-PerlmanSep 10, 2023, 6:00 PM

26 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development

Orpheus16Apr 5, 2023, 1:26 AM

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(today.yougov.com)

Excessive AI growth-rate yields little socio-economic benefit.

Cleo NardoApr 4, 2023, 7:13 PM

27 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

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

Nicholas / Heather KrossJan 21, 2024, 5:45 PM

9 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Most People Don’t Realize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work

Thane RuthenisDec 21, 2023, 8:02 PM

159 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Ways to buy time

Orpheus16, OliviaJ and Thomas Larsen

Nov 12, 2022, 7:31 PM

34 points

23 comments12 min readLW link

Accurate Models of AI Risk Are Hyperexistential Exfohazards

Thane RuthenisDec 25, 2022, 4:50 PM

33 points

38 comments9 min readLW link

Institutions Cannot Restrain Dark-Triad AI Exploitation

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 10:34 AM

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb

RemmeltMar 31, 2025, 3:52 AM

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

I Would Have Solved Alignment, But I Was Worried That Would Advance Timelines

307thOct 20, 2023, 4:37 PM

122 points

33 comments9 min readLW link

AI pause/governance advocacy might be net-negative, especially without a focus on explaining x-risk

Mikhail SaminAug 27, 2023, 11:05 PM

72 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Nine Points of Collective Insanity

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 3:14 AM

−2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

An AI crash is our best bet for restricting AI

RemmeltOct 11, 2024, 2:12 AM

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

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

RemmeltApr 8, 2025, 8:31 AM

32 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Crash scenario 1: Rapidly mobilise for a 2025 AI crash

RemmeltApr 11, 2025, 6:54 AM

12 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

RemmeltMar 31, 2025, 4:17 AM

26 points

15 comments12 min readLW link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

Jeffrey HeningerJul 1, 2023, 1:15 AM

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

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

RemmeltMar 26, 2025, 7:57 AM

39 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(chatgptiseatingtheworld.com)

An EA used deceptive messaging to advance their project; we need mechanisms to avoid deontologically dubious plans

Mikhail SaminFeb 13, 2024, 11:15 PM

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How ‘Human-Human’ dynamics give way to ‘Human-AI’ and then ‘AI-AI’ dynamics

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 3:16 AM

−2 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

Why Stop AI is barricading OpenAI

RemmeltOct 14, 2024, 7:12 AM

−16 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

The International PauseAI Protest: Activism under uncertainty

Joseph MillerOct 12, 2023, 5:36 PM

32 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Some reasons to start a project to stop harmful AI

RemmeltAug 22, 2024, 4:23 PM

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

My Current Thoughts on the AI Strategic Landscape

Jeffrey HeningerSep 28, 2023, 5:59 PM

11 points

28 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the deal with Effective Accelerationism (e/acc)?

RomanHaukssonApr 6, 2023, 4:03 AM

23 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Some skepticism about skepticism about efficacy of pausing AI

extinction-bountiesMay 15, 2025, 6:15 PM

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] If AI is in a bubble and the bubble bursts, what would you do?

RemmeltAug 19, 2024, 10:56 AM

12 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

RemmeltOct 21, 2024, 8:41 AM

17 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

We’re not prepared for an AI market crash

RemmeltApr 1, 2025, 4:33 AM

50 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

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

RemmeltOct 24, 2024, 1:00 AM

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(suchir.net)

List of petitions against OpenAI’s for-profit move

RemmeltApr 25, 2025, 10:03 AM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

List #1: Why stopping the development of AGI is hard but doable

RemmeltDec 24, 2022, 9:52 AM

6 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

The 0.2 OOMs/year target

Cleo NardoMar 30, 2023, 6:15 PM

84 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

How harmful are improvements in AI? + Poll

tilmanr and Marius Hobbhahn

Feb 15, 2022, 6:16 PM

15 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

RemmeltMar 9, 2024, 12:22 PM

27 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

otto.bartenMay 8, 2023, 2:09 PM

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Anthropic is being sued for copying books to train Claude

RemmeltAug 31, 2024, 2:57 AM

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

List #2: Why coordinating to align as humans to not develop AGI is a lot easier than, well… coordinating as humans with AGI coordinating to be aligned with humans

RemmeltDec 24, 2022, 9:53 AM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

New AI safety treaty paper out!

otto.bartenMar 26, 2025, 9:29 AM

15 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

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Slow­ing Down AI

Slowing Down AI