[ExI] How long will AI consider humans to be indispensable?

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 7:43 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *>> The conditional nature of the pause call:* This is the big one. *The
>> report stops short of a unilateral pledge — Anthropic said it would slow
>> down or pause only if other frontier labs did so under verifiable
>> conditions.* In other words, it's not "we are pausing"; it's "a pause
>> would be good *if* it's globally coordinated and verifiable."
>>
> *> And there it is.  They know it won't happen absent extremely unlikely
> circumstances, regardless of whether the sentiment is genuine or just PR.
> (Both are probably true, from different members of the company.)  So, this
> commits them to nothing in practice.*
>

*I agree with everything you said 100%. *

* John K Clark *
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