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Ilya Sutskever

person · Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.; former Chief Scientist, OpenAICredibility: 60%

Why this score? Founding OpenAI chief scientist, now running a frontier lab of his own. Authoritative on his own positions and technical judgement; a motivated party on capability forecasts and on the terms of any industry-wide slowdown.

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Future AI will be extraordinarily powerful compared to anything that exists today, and dealing with this future power will require unprecedented measures, such as the ones described here. The problem statement is real. This works only if it is done internationally, and it has to be done well: a bad implementation can make things worse.?

— Ilya Sutskever · Jul 30, 2026
Context: A signatory's comment printed alongside his signature on the letter, made in a personal capacity, and a forecast rather than a claim about anything that has happened — there is no date, no threshold and no metric in it to resolve against. Its interest is in who says it and what it withholds: Sutskever now runs a frontier developer of his own, and his endorsement is conditional on the measure being international and competently built, which is the same competitor-contingency that the Future of Life Institute's July index identifies across the industry's pause pledges. The letter he signed asks a government to build the tools; it does not commit his company or anyone else's to using them.