David Krueger
Role at the time: Assistant Professor, University of Montreal; Core Academic Member, Mila
Statement summary
David Krueger, an AI safety researcher at the University of Montreal and Mila, wrote in a Guardian op-ed that Dario Amodei's proposed "pacing" plan is inadequate and called instead for "an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium on frontier AI development," including decommissioning advanced AI chips.
“an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium on frontier AI development”
Guardian opinion piece by David Krueger rejecting Dario Amodei's "pacing" proposal as insufficient and calling for a moratorium on frontier AI development.
Why we used this label
Krueger explicitly rejects Anthropic's proposed pacing approach as inadequate and calls for a moratorium, a direct condemnation of Anthropic's stated approach to advancing toward recursive self-improvement.