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The speaker recommends a temporary inference-only pause to build transparency and verification infrastructure, then resuming AI development in a more distributed, transparent, and cautious manner.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“plan s would be better than the default like i would rather just stop everything now than continue going on our current trajectory secondly our actual recommendation would be to do plan a so you do like a temporary inference only pause now so that you can set up all the transparency and verification infrastructure and then you can continue in this more distributed you know transparent cautious way as as previously described”1:18:23Report a misattribution
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