Frontier Lab Researchers Discuss Coordinated Slowdown If Safety Plans Fail

What was said

"There was a general kind of shared understanding that we might need to do some sort of coordinated slowdown at some point. We might not be able to pull this off and hopefully we'll recognize that and not just blindly go off the cliff."

At the Recursive event, researchers from multiple frontier AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind agreed they may need to coordinate slowing development if monitoring and safety techniques prove inadequate during recursive self-improvement. This represents a significant shift in the Overton window, with cross-lab collaboration on safety now openly discussed despite competitive pressures.