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Once the infrastructure is established, AI development should resume cautiously and transparently, with capability scaled gradually rather than through rapid intelligence explosions.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“Once you've passed that stage and you've got the infrastructure set up, then you do proceed with AI development, but in this transparent.”
“more cautious way so in particular you're not doing crazy intelligence explosions you're using safety cases and sort of gradually scaling up the level of AI capability and you're doing it in a very transparent way so that everyone can see what's going on and then there's a second pause that happens a few years later than that which is when they reach the level the maximum controllable level of AI which we think is roughly around top human expert level and so in some sense our view is something like pause at top human expert level but”Play from 59:14Report a misattribution
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