Any pause will have to be a global treaty
Which is why tech CEOs love to promote it. They know it'll never happen.
We know how to make “AI” more capable, but we don’t know how to make it stay aligned with human goals.
"Alignment" is almost entirely a myth cooked up by AI companies who want to make their word generators sound scarier than they are. There's no such thing: the next word generator generates next word. It's unpredictable because it's built that way. "Hallucination" and "going rogue", all poor terms and pathetic attempts to fearmonger and humanize, are identical functions to "working" and "aligning".
The technology... isn’t going anywhere
The "it's just inevitable" cliche rears its ugly head again.