Paper Discussion Group | To Pause or Not to Pause? ⏸️🤖

​Should we pause frontier AI development to manage the risks? Tomorrow, Sané (ZAIS) is hosting a discussion on the arguments for and against. It will open with the basic case for an AI pause, walk through the main arguments on both sides, and then discuss which considerations carry the most weight.

📚 Optional pre-reading (pick one):
- Joe Carlsmith — On Restraining AI Development for the Sake of Safety (https://joecarlsmith.com/2026/03/19/on-restraining-ai-development-for-the-sake-of-safety/#6-3-1-concentrations-of-power)
- Scott Alexander — Pause for Thought: The AI Pause Debate (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/pause-for-thought-the-ai-pause-debate)
- Aim for Conditional Pauses (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/vw6tX5SyvTwMeSxJk/p/BFbsqwCuuqueFRfpW)
- Nora Belrose - AI Pause Will Likely Backfire (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/vw6tX5SyvTwMeSxJk/p/JYEAL8g7ArqGoTaX6)
- Bostrom — Optimal Timing for Superintelligence, only "Theory of Second Best" section (https://nickbostrom.com/optimal.pdf)