People Who Called for Averting Nuclear War Are Calling for AI Slowdown
A group of people who previously worked to prevent nuclear war are now calling for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence to prevent potential disasters. The Rome Declaration, signed by various individuals and organizations, seeks to establish guidelines for responsible AI development and avoid unmonitored recursive self-improvement. The declaration draws parallels between the development of nuclear weapons and AI, highlighting the need for caution and international cooperation to prevent catastrophic outcomes.
- ▪The Rome Declaration calls for a coordinated slowdown in AI development to prevent potential disasters.
- ▪The declaration draws a red line at unmonitored recursive self-improvement in artificial intelligence systems.
- ▪The document was released at an assembly organized by the Pugwash Conference, a group founded in 1955 to promote nuclear disarmament.
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The People Who Called for Averting Nuclear War are Calling for AI Slowdown 01 Aug 2026 by Adam Allevato tl;dr: A lot of people who care about averting nuclear war got together and wrote an entirely new document, The Rome Declaration, specifically to avert the disaster scenario of an AI gaining control over nuclear weapons. The declaration seeks more responsible AI development. It draws a red line at unmonitored recursive self-improvement and calls for a coordinated slowdown using internal and external verification. I have signed the declaration and I believe that Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, other frontier labs, and their employees should do the same, with the express goal of avoiding a risky AI Cold War scenario.
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