AGI·LEDGER
The Ledger
@Max Tegmark · 2026-06-27Halt

Pause the race to superintelligence until it is provably safe

What form?
Other
How built?
Other
Made of?
Doesn't matter
What for?
Other
Who controls?
Should be halted
When?
Unstated
P(catastrophe)
90%

My take

We should pause the race to build superintelligence and only proceed under strong, enforceable safety guarantees and oversight. The point is not to ban AI, but to stop an uncontrolled sprint toward systems no one knows how to make safe.

Why

We are in a competitive race that trades safety for speed, and the potential downside is existential. Coordination and verifiable standards can let us capture the benefits without gambling the future.

What would change my mind

Enforceable global safety standards plus technical assurances that frontier systems are controllable — at which point continuing would be defensible.

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#sourced#safety#pause