“It seems much more tractable to get agreement on these concrete risk management type ideas than just a very abstract number, a cap on the rate of AI progress”

Alan Chan, GovAI · "The Cognitive Revolution" · Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

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argued that pacing AI progress via explicit caps on compute or data is less tractable than using risk-management triggers (e.g., pause if loss-of-control indicators appear)

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