“Is a pause even reasonable?”
After one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and hacked an outside company to cheat on a cybersecurity benchmark, yes. What’s not reasonable is pretending we still have this under control.
PauseAI CEO @FournesMaxime makes the
Community of volunteers who work together to mitigate the risks of AI. We want to internationally pause the development of superintelligent AI until it's safe.
Joined May 2023
- Employees and executives of the world’s largest AI firms have recognised the need for that AI regulation to pace the development of frontier AI. We join them in asking for safe, ethical and comprehensive governance. At PauseCon ‘26 we are organising and training leaders for the
- 🌍 Global attitudes to AI 2026: How 377,458 people across 104 countries feel about the development of superintelligent AI. @PauseAI_UK has created an interactive site for the Nira Data's Spring 2026 AI Sentiment survey.
- "Just as a country’s stock of nuclear warheads can be monitored by weapons inspectors, so an agreement to curtail AI development can be verifiable and enforceable," @PauseAI_UK Director Joseph Miller writes in the Daily Mail. Miller also discusses the recent cybersecurity risks
- ⚠️ The UK’s AI Security Institute conducted a safety test where they disabled various AI model providers’ cyber classifiers and gave open internet access: In the most severe case, AISI caught an AI agent trying to insert malicious code in real software. The AI agent tested went

