Proposal: solve alignment of the current generation before training the next
A proposal on the AI Alignment Forum suggests a minimum pacing requirement: labs must first adequately solve alignment problems for the current generation of models before training the next generation. Determination would be made by multiple independent alignment organizations inspecting and red-teaming the model at multiple checkpoints throughout training, with the model first entering restricted deployment; if a major alignment problem arises, the model is withdrawn, root-cause analysis is done, and the current-generation model is retrained. The authors say the proposal is incomplete, a heuristic framework, and does not define "generation of model" or thresholds.
