Pause / standards advocacy cluster
Can advocacy create enforceable slowdown without collateral governance failure?
Introduction
The pause and standards advocacy cluster—PauseAI, FLI, ControlAI, Encode, and allies—pursues policy campaigns, moratorium advocacy, and verified-slowdown narratives to reduce extinction risk from advanced AI. Its primary lever is schedule and selection ecology rather than mechanism discharge. Advocacy can shape Goodhart Selection basin transitions without resolving the full bridge stack from embedded agency through successor gaming.
Who carries it: PauseAI, FLI, ControlAI, Encode, Stop AI (distinct tactics, shared vocabulary)
What they aim to do. Change policy and public narrative to reduce extinction risk from advanced AI.
The hard question. Can advocacy create enforceable slowdown without collateral governance failure?
What they produce. Policy campaigns, SB 53 / RAISE-style bills, and ControlAI’s Narrow Path advocacy programme.
Key terms. Key terms include pause, moratorium, standards, off-switch priority, and verified slowdown.
Related field cruxes. Goodhart Selection; Extrapolated Volition
What they contribute. Schedule shapes for governance stress tests (Appendix F deferred section).
How this project treats it. A pause or standards handle does not discharge the full alignment bridge stack from Embedded Agency through Successor Gaming; it mainly shapes Goodhart Selection basin transition conditions, with Extrapolated Volition as a secondary route.
Links
See the coverage matrix for evidence tagged to this agenda, and the glossary for shared terms.