Humanity can take its finger off the scale of technological progress any time it wants.

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• Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate. SAScott Aaronson7 Sept 2008similar wording
• For the whole of human history the bottleneck on progress has been getting a group of smart people together around a shared goal. AWAlexandr Wang29 Jul 2026similar wording
• Human-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival. SAScott Aaronson7 Sept 2008similar wording
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• Technological determinism is only believable low down the tech tree; higher up we already choose which paths not to take. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026similar wording

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