# Contested concept: moratorium

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: Masks disagreement over whether incremental pauses are a stepping stone or a distraction from the needed total halt.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/moratorium` (data: `/concept/moratorium.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes** — used in 6 claim(s)
- **Six-month pause on systems more powerful than GPT-4** — used in 5 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [The moratorium on new large training runs needs to be indefinite and worldwide. There can be no exceptions, including for governments or mi…](/claim/claim_02f1c1b7e550.md) _(sense: Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes)_
- [We are past the point of playing political chess about a six-month moratorium [on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4].](/claim/claim_277c8ea5de74.md) _(sense: Six-month pause on systems more powerful than GPT-4)_
- [Anyone talking [as sanely as those who react to extinction risk from Artificial General Intelligence with "maybe we should not build AGI, t…](/claim/claim_54da26a04261.md) _(sense: Six-month pause on systems more powerful than GPT-4)_
- [Shut down all the large GPU clusters and all the large training runs, put a ceiling on how much computing power anyone is allowed to use in…](/claim/claim_956ab07fcc61.md) _(sense: Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes)_
- [There isn't any plan for Earth to survive if only a six-month moratorium were passed.](/claim/claim_a0d31a1660c0.md) _(sense: Six-month pause on systems more powerful than GPT-4)_
- [The moratorium on new large training runs [of AI systems] needs to be indefinite and worldwide.](/claim/claim_c87144d306b3.md) _(sense: Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes)_
- [The moratorium on new large training runs needs to be indefinite and worldwide. There can be no exceptions, including for governments or mi…](/claim/claim_cb8f068d657e.md) _(sense: Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes)_
- [The 6-month moratorium [called for in the open letter] would be better than no moratorium.](/claim/claim_cdf2bd622680.md) _(sense: Six-month pause on systems more powerful than GPT-4)_
- [I refrained from signing the open letter calling for a pause of at least 6 months on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 because t…](/claim/claim_de70e61ea8bf.md) _(sense: Six-month pause on systems more powerful than GPT-4)_
- [[The shutdown of large GPU clusters and large training runs should have] no exceptions for governments and militaries.](/claim/claim_f83066ad68f7.md) _(sense: Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes)_
- [There can be no exceptions [to the moratorium on new large training runs], including for governments or militaries.](/claim/claim_fe958a969d6f.md) _(sense: Indefinite, worldwide, no exceptions, enforced by compute caps and airstrikes)_