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The pause letter was a delaying tactic; it did not call for permanently stopping AI development or all AI research.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“So it was explicitly constructed as a delaying tactic.”
“It wasn't saying never build AI.”
“It wasn't saying don't do any more AI research.”Play from 17:45Report a misattribution
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