The game plan
Ideal parents raise virtuous children, then cede power.
It looks like Anthropic plan to do the same.
This strategy may well involve [slamming](https://pauseai.info/proposal) [on](https://pauseai.info/proposal) [the](https://aistatement.com/) [brakes](https://theaipn.org/issue/quotes/) at some point. This buys time to come up with a better idea, or at least improve our parenting skills. This is tempting, given the [widely-acknowledged risk of human extinction](https://aistatement.com/). But would it actually improve our chances?