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“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y01. Argues that the dangerous thresholds lie beyond human-level intelligence and cannot be calculated in advance, so a lab could pass them unnoticed. Written in response to the March 2023 open letter calling for a six-month pause. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-03-29 · publication Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Under the message-level rule, the passage, read with the paragraph, message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that we will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch. Scope and limits Premise addressed: We will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch. Cited from the TIME original rather than the 2023-04-08 LessWrong crosspost. The cached page's HTML title now reads 'The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down'; the on-page headline is the one given in the locator. Hedged ("may not be obvious", "seems imaginable"); aimed at the open letter's capability threshold rather than the off-switch argument.
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Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down ↗ TIME · 2023-03-29
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Source excerpt “we definitely can’t calculate in advance what happens when, and it currently seems imaginable that a research lab would cross critical lines without noticing.” Location in source TIME, 'Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down' (29 March 2023), paragraph beginning 'The key issue is not “human-competitive” intelligence'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version TIME, retrieved 2026-10-06 (SHA-256 4a8c77e15456ca68b530df8bd825296e3923f621b0c0b09dacce312ae94182d6). Page metadata datePublished 2023-03-29T22:01:58Z. The page title currently reads "The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down"; the headline is the one crossposted to LessWrong on 2023-04-08. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down”, TIME, 2023-03-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage T01-d. The quotation (24 words; trimmed 2026-10-13 from 31 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 4a8c77e15456ca68b530df8bd825296e3923f621b0c0b09dacce312ae94182d6) when checked on 2026-10-06. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Page metadata datePublished 2023-03-29T22:01:58Z. The page title currently reads "The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down"; the headline is the one crossposted to LessWrong on 2023-04-08.
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