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Other studies have detected that LLMs are bad at making strategic judgment calls, for example
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What’s more, when they’re deployed, the tools aren’t dropped into a cleanroom.
Key facts
- Companies have built the tech (Step 1) and promised transformation (Step 3)
- According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and they're struggling to keep up
- As far as Pause AI is concerned, Step 2 must involve some kind of regulation
- AI boosters, on the other hand, are convinced that Step 3 is salvation and tend to glaze over the middle bit
Summary
In February, the reporter picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. Produced by Pause AI, an international activist group that co-organized the protest, it ended with this plea to the reader: “Pause AI until we know what the hell Step 2 is.” In the South Park episode “Gnomes,” which first aired in 1998, Kenny, Kyle, Cartman, and Stan discover a community of gnomes that sneak out at night to steal underpants from dressers. The gnomes’ business plan has since become one of the greats among internet memes, used to satirize everything from startup strategies to policy proposals. Companies have built the tech (Step 1) and promised transformation (Step 3). As far as Pause AI is concerned, Step 2 must involve some kind of regulation.