# Should AI Development Pause? China, Safety and a Global Treaty - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117452882773684550 - Source account: [@ONagel33303](https://x.com/ONagel33303) - Source language: English - Duration: 1:55 - Published: 2026-11-05 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty) What about the frontier where companies are pushing forward? [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=3) Would you limit that? We need a full-on pause. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=5) Full-on pause. Full-on pause. Okay. Look, at the end of the day- What, and what happens then, the, the instant question, Okay. Look, at the end of the day- What, and what happens then, the, the instant question, what happens and if we pause and China doesn't? [0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=13) See, I, I just don't think that that's a... [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=16) I don't, I don't take that as seriously as a lot of people do. Here's why. [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=19) A lot of the frontier research is just spoofing our models. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=23) China's research? China's research. And it'd be like, you know, you're pulling a, a skier on a boat, and you speed up the boat, and you're like, "The skier's still so close. [0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=31) We gotta speed up. The skier's still so close." [0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=34) Well, it's because you're pulling the skier, and I think that's in part what's happening, right? [0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=38) And they've been very, very good at just mocking our, uh, technology. [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=42) So I think if we slow down, I think we f- we'll find that a lot of what China is doing is more about the dispersion of this technology than it is on, on frontier research. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=50) And at the same time, I think we need an international treaty. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=53) I, I think we need to be working with the Chinese 'cause at the end of the day- 'Cause eventual- eventually the water skier can I, I think we need to be working with the Chinese 'cause at the end of the day- 'Cause eventual- eventually the water skier can still swim and catch up, right? I mean, [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=59) that's where the analogy falls, falls apart. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=60) Sorry, just, just running, running with the- Yeah. But- ... running with the metaphor ... but, uh, eventually, yes, they, they are going to be able to hop on a jet ski and catch up. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=66) But the, the point that I'm making here is that, uh, I think all of us are interested in the preservation of humanity, right? [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=71) Because, you know, in China they're humans too, and we're humans too, and creating robots that, uh, get to this point of recursive self-improvement, kinda like that horror point in Fantasia where you've got the, the mops with the buckets that are self-creating. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=83) None of us wanna get there, and none of us want to see what happens when you open Pandora's Box and all of a sudden AI has far exceeded our control. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=91) So I think we all have an incentive to get this right, but to understand that we are gonna have to figure out how to work together similarly to what we've done when it came to other potentially, um, uh, humanity risking- Yeah ... uh, technological endeavors like n- nuclear power, [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zEtgrr0dOodQ/en/should-ai-development-pause-china-safety-and-a-global-treaty?t=105) to be able to contain the potential threat and work together to make sure that we are focused more, uh, on protecting humanity than just simply what the microscale incentives might look like.