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Roman Yampolskiy

AI safety researcher

STOP

Advocates permanently banning development of general superintelligence while supporting advanced narrow AI; also endorses a coalition prohibition requiring scientific safety consensus and strong public buy-in before lifting. His earlier proposals allowed research to restart if control became possible.

“A pause is not enough. It has to be a permanent ban.”