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AI Lab Policy Coordinated Pausing: An Evaluation-Based Coordination Scheme for Frontier AI Developers September 2023 Research Paper Jide Alaga, Jonas Schuett This paper proposes an evaluation-based co
The paper proposes an evaluation-based coordination scheme for cases where frontier AI developers find that their models have dangerous capabilities. Under the scheme, developers pause related work when a model fails evaluations, notify other developers who do the same, and resume only after safety analysis and thresholds are met. The authors discuss four versions, from voluntary pausing under public pressure to legally required evaluations, and conclude that coordinated pausing is a promising mechanism for emerging frontier AI risks, though practical and legal challenges remain.