The Feasibility of a
Hardwired Pause
of Frontier AI Training

Organizers:

William Fithian

Associate Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Wesley H. Holliday

Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

Members:

Kayla Blomquist

Executive Director, Oxford China Policy Lab

Gregory Conti

Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Barry Eichengreen

George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Rose Gottemoeller

Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Kelly M. Greenhill

Associate Professor of Political Science, International Relations and Civic Studies, Tufts University; Visiting Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, and Seminar XXI Director, MIT; AI and Society Fellow, Center for AI Safety

Ming-Yen Ho

PhD Candidate, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Icard

C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science (by courtesy), Stanford University

Shachar Kariv

Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Kroth

Research Scholar, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, University of California, Berkeley

David Krueger

Assistant Professor in Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible AI at the University of Montreal / Mila

Gretchen Krueger

Independent Researcher Affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University

Erik Leklem

AI Governance Research Fellow, MATS Research

Adam Lesnikowski

Doctoral Researcher in Logic and the Methodology of Science, University of California, Berkeley

Xiaobo Lü

Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Dennis Murphy

PhD Candidate in International Affairs, Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology; Predoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

Lindsay Rand

Research Scholar, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Reddie

Associate Research Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Stuart Russell

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Sargent

Professor of History and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Kirsten Ann Schulz

Former American Diplomat, U.S. State Department

Sanjit Seshia

Cadence Founders Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Anita Srinivasan

Research Fellow, MATS Research

Rory Truex

Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Carah Ong Whaley

Lecturer in Politics, University of Virginia