About this document

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 centralised list. I'm undecided on how best to order and subdivide the examples, but I'm open to suggestions.

As a disclaimer, 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!

List of slowdown/halt AI requests

Last updated: April 14th 2023.

(Note that I'm also including surveys.)

• Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
  by Future of Life Institute
• Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
  by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• We must slow down the race to God-like AI
  by Ian Hogarth
• The A.I. Dilemma
  by the Center for Humane Technology
• The case for slowing down AI ^[1]
  by Sigal Samuel
• The Case for Halting AI Development
  by Max Tegmark, Lex Fridman
• Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
  by Lennart Heim, Future of Life Institute
• Let’s think about slowing down AI
  by KatjaGrace
• The 0.2 OOMs/year target
  by Cleo Nardo
• AI Summer Harvest
  by Cleo Nardo
• Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
  by Akash, Olivia Jimenez, Thomas Larsen
• Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy
  by Michael Huang
• Slowing Down AI: Rationales, Proposals, and Difficulties ^[1]
  by Simeon Campos, Henry Papadatos, Charles M
• What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
  by lc
• In the Matter of OpenAI (FTC 2023) ^[1]
  by Center for AI and Digital Policy
• We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI ^[2]
  by Erik Hoel
• Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
  by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Lex Fridman
• We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky
  by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Bankless
• The public supports regulating AI for safety
  by Zach Stein-Perlman
• New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development
  by Akash

1. ^{^}

   Credit to Zach Stein-Perlman.

2. ^{^}

   Credit to MM Maas.