You can't prove safety in a vacuum—safety research advances by grappling with real frontier models. A pause just hands the lead to actors who care less about safety.
Pause until safe. If a system could reshape society or evade control, “move fast” is reckless—we need proof of safety before scaling the stakes.
Pausing is a total fantasy. Our adversaries aren't hitting the brakes, so we need to build faster and solve safety in the trenches.
Pausing frontier AI just hands the lead to sketchier labs. Build faster, iterate on safety in the open, and outpace the risks.
