# List of requests for an AI slowdown/halt.

**Last updated: April 14th 2023.**

1.  [Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter](https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/)  
    by [Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/)
2.  [Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down](https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/)  
    by [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/eliezer_yudkowsky)
3.  [We must slow down the race to God-like AI](https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2)  
    by [Ian Hogarth](https://www.ft.com/stream/7976f4c9-70b5-449a-9cc4-5e98a8dd5df7)
4.  [The A.I. Dilemma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ)  
    by the [Center for Humane Technology](https://www.youtube.com/@CenterforHumaneTechnology)
5.  [The case for slowing down AI](https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23621198/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-openai-existential-risk-china-ai-safety-technology) [^9787e180o9w]  
    by [Sigal Samuel](https://www.vox.com/authors/sigal-samuel)
6.  [The Case for Halting AI Development](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A)  
    by [Max Tegmark](https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-tegmark/), [Lex Fridman](https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman)
7.  [Lennart Heim on Compute Governance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCxJUDDvq94)  
    by [Lennart Heim](https://heim.xyz/about/), [Future of Life Institute](https://www.youtube.com/@futureoflifeinstitute2787)
8.  [Let’s think about slowing down AI](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/uFNgRumrDTpBfQGrs/let-s-think-about-slowing-down-ai)  
    by [KatjaGrace](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/katjagrace)
9.  [The 0.2 OOMs/year target](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/9xfRjaKDTb57BaGWv/the-0-2-ooms-year-target)  
    by [Cleo Nardo](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/cleo-nardo)
10.  [AI Summer Harvest](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P98i7kAN2uWuy7mhD/ai-summer-harvest)  
    by [Cleo Nardo](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/cleo-nardo)
11.  [Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BbM47qBPzdSRruY4z/instead-of-technical-research-more-people-should-focus-on) by [Orpheus16](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/akash-wasil?from=post_header), [Olive Branch](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/olive-branch?from=post_header), [Thomas Larsen](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/thomas-larsen?from=post_header)
12.  [Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6LNvQYyNQpDQmnnux/slowing-down-ai-progress-is-an-underexplored-alignment)  
    by [Michael Huang](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/michael-huang)
13.  [Slowing Down AI: Rationales, Proposals, and Difficulties](https://navigatingairisks.substack.com/p/slowing-down-ai-rationales-proposals) [^9787e180o9w]  
    by [Simeon Campos](https://substack.com/profile/85867283-simeon-campos), [Henry Papadatos](https://substack.com/profile/41973448-henry-papadatos), [Charles M](https://substack.com/profile/69835945-charles-m)
14.  [What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kipMvuaK3NALvFHc9/what-an-actually-pessimistic-containment-strategy-looks-like)  
    by [lc](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/lc)
15.  [In the Matter of OpenAI (FTC 2023)](https://www.caidp.org/cases/openai/) [^9787e180o9w]  
    by [Center for AI and Digital Policy](https://www.caidp.org/)
16.  [We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI](https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/we-need-a-butlerian-jihad-against) [^kkxl9mxb6hr]  
    by [Erik Hoel](https://substack.com/profile/9379583-erik-hoel)
17.  [Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8)  
    by [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/eliezer_yudkowsky), [Lex Fridman](https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman)
18.  [We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4)  
    by [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/eliezer_yudkowsky), [Bankless](https://www.youtube.com/@Bankless)
19.  [The public supports regulating AI for safety](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/M3iPAmxZwy4gPXdXw/the-public-supports-regulating-ai-for-safety)  
    by [Zach Stein-Perlman](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/zach-stein-perlman)
20.  [New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/p8suSXSwEoKTfGbp9/new-survey-46-of-americans-are-concerned-about-extinction)  
    by [Akash](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/akash-wasil)

About this document
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There has been a recent flurry of letters/articles/statements/videos which endorse a slowdown or halt of colossal AI experiments via (e.g.) regulation or coordination. This document aspires to collect all examples into a single list. I'm undecided on how best to order and subdivide the examples, but I'm open to suggestions. Note that I'm also including surveys.

This list is:

*   **Living —** I'll try to update the list over time.
*   **Non-exhaustive —** There are almost certainly examples I've missed.
*   **Non-representative —** The list is biased, at least initially, towards things that I have been shown personally.

Please mention in the comments any examples I've missed so I can add them.

[^9787e180o9w]: Credit to Zach Stein-Perlman. 

[^kkxl9mxb6hr]: Credit to MM Maas.