Under what circumstances would you support an international pause on frontier model development?
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
We already pause training unilaterally whenever model capabilities advance faster than our alignment and verification techniques. At an industry level, companies will require clear regulatory mechanisms and antitrust exemptions to coordinate safety measures legally. Internationally, multilateral agreements between major powers such as the United States and China on shared safety standards and verifiable thresholds are essential to prevent dangerous capability race conditions.
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