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The likely outcome of an AI pause is that we unpause too early and everyone dies.

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A post argues that pausing AI development is likely to fail because the pause would be lifted too early, with fatal results.

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“Cross-posted from my website . As of a few months ago, I had this simplified mental model where either AI developers race ahead and kill everyone, or we coordinate a pause and things go okay.”
LessWrong, 28 Sept 2026, 18:35.

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