Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris@KamalaHarris

The frontier of artificial intelligence is advancing at an alarming speed. Over the weekend, industry leaders voiced support for an idea that the American people and many AI researchers in their own labs have been calling for: We must responsibly slow the pace of frontier AI development. A slowdown is critical in order to ensure AI serves the public interest. Pacing AI development does not mean giving up on this technology’s potential to produce life-saving benefits in fields like medicine — some of which we are already seeing. Rather, it is about setting up sensible guardrails so that AI does not completely escape human control and endanger our safety and collective future. This moment demands the leadership of the United States government. Congress must work at an urgent pace to pass new laws and establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing for this technology, to ensure accountability, and to protect our wellbeing. We need cooperation at an international level as well. The United States must continue to lead the world in developing AI technology even as we seek to impose common-sense safety standards. This means that the president must do his job to protect America’s interests by pursuing a treaty with countries like China to stop dangerous uses of AI, limit the speed of its development, and adopt global standards for testing.

Source context. Root independently opened the original post in authenticated Brave; this researcher inspected its preserved full text and machine-readable timestamp in brave-original-post.json. Paragraph 2 preserves benefits, paragraph 3 seeks federal oversight, paragraph 4 seeks international development-speed limits.

Scope

Frontier AI capability development, with international coordination

Conditions

Preserve beneficial applications and U.S. leadership; sensible guardrails, human control, independent testing and an international treaty limiting development speed.

Stated rationale

The independently opened original four-paragraph post explicitly demands slowing frontier development. It distinguishes pacing from abandoning beneficial applications and seeks international speed limits. Earlier safety/innovation rhetoric neither contradicts this narrower recommendation nor establishes a prior acceleration stance.

“President Biden and I reject the false choice that suggests we can either protect the public or advance innovation.”

Concluding section, paragraph before “We can and we must do both” · View original source ↗

Source context. Archived official speech transcript distinguishes present harms, safety testing, voluntary commitments and legislation. This is not a demand to accelerate or maintain frontier training.

Scope

Public-interest AI safety, regulation and innovation; development, adoption and use are discussed together

Conditions

Protection of the public alongside innovation; no prescribed capability-development pace in this passage.

Stated rationale

The independently opened original four-paragraph post explicitly demands slowing frontier development. It distinguishes pacing from abandoning beneficial applications and seeks international speed limits. Earlier safety/innovation rhetoric neither contradicts this narrower recommendation nor establishes a prior acceleration stance.