[ExI] The Scientific Reason We Can’t Pause AI

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The Scientific Reason We Can’t Pause AI
By Andréa Morris   Published Jun 09, 2026

<https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2026/06/09/the-scientific-reason-we-cant-pause-ai/>
Quotes:
The most dangerous assumption in AI safety is that we can control AI
once it’s smarter than us. The second most dangerous assumption is
that we can control how fast we develop it.
Our AI challenge is still a moonshot, but not a moonshot for control.
It’s a moonshot for coexistence with a hyper-capable intelligence. It
requires imagination and determination to figure out how to share our
world with forms of intelligence more alien and powerful than our own.
And it requires us to figure this out mid-flight, without the luxury
of a pause.
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"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870).

Interesting that Farragut was facing a similar quandary as humanity today.
Quote:
The phrase has gained immortality in the 150 years since, but, in
fact, Farragut had little choice at this point but to go ahead. He
could not stop under the guns of Fort Morgan and he could not back
down with a column of ships behind him, so he went ahead. The rest of
the Federal ships followed him, careful to stay in his wake.
<https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/damn-torpedoes>

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