Mike Knoop urges keeping AI research open amid slowdown proposals

Mike Knoop says he sees a path to an ARC-AGI-4 benchmark focused on open-ended invention, which he calls the gating capability between zero-sum automation and positive-sum innovation.

He argues that coordinated slowdown efforts would likely apply to everyone, including open-source work, and cites chain of thought and the transformer as inventions that grew out of open science research.

He concludes the research frontier must stay open to keep humanity on a positive-sum path.