Pace or Pause.

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Shane Legg

DeepMind co-founder

PACE

Supports capability-linked safety benchmarks that can slow or pause development; concrete thresholds remain to be worked out, and this is his personal view.

“I think that's a sensible thing to do but it's actually quite hard to do. There are some people thinking about that. I know Anthropic has put out some things like that. We were thinking about similar things but actually putting concrete things down is quite a hard thing to do. I think it's an important problem and I certainly encourage people to work on it.”