Vitalik proposes a hardware-level implementation of a global "soft pause button" to replace the dangerous AGI race

PANews reported on January 6 that Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, proposed in an article related to the d/acc concept published today to establish a global “soft pause button” to replace the dangerous Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) race. Its function is to "reduce the world's available computing power by approximately 90%-99% at critical moments for 1-2 years to buy more preparation time for humans."

In this regard, some users commented: "I strongly disagree with Vitalik Buterin and d/acc's views. Without the use of military force to enforce (which obviously will not happen), suspend 90%-99% of the world within 1-2 years The chances of a modest slowdown are slim."

Vitalik then responded: "Yes, I agree that this is a difficult task, but almost all proposals to deal with strong artificial intelligence are difficult in some way. I think the key idea in this proposal is that it is more difficult than Other pause ideas are less tough because it's enforced at the hardware level, so key decisions are made before the high-stakes period begins, and 'defections' require making new hardware (rather than just secretly dialing in a few switch), which requires months of preparation.”

Following news earlier today, Vitalik said that many encryption technologies can be used in the subject area of ​​​​d/acc .