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Nate Soares proposes a monitored global freeze on superintelligence

Nate Soares calls for an international freeze on the race to systems smarter than humans, backed by monitoring of advanced chips, while allowing narrower AI applications such as chatbots, autonomous vehicles, and medical systems to continue.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM32confidence 50/100

Why it moved the index

The proposal adds a specific governance mechanism for slowing the frontier race while preserving narrow AI benefits, but it remains an unimplemented policy argument and the publisher flags its transcript as AI-generated and potentially imperfect.

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  1. R1
    Away 32 · confidence 50

    Historical tracked-person backfill found a dated full institutional interview with a distinct concrete governance proposal absent from the durable automation context.

    13 Aug 2026
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