Vitalik proposed a compromise between the two sides: a pre-arrangement to initiate a moratorium in case of extremes

On 11 July, Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the ETA, wrote about the AI super-smart controversy. He pointed out that there were two factions in the AI world: one believed that super-smarts were bound to come by 2040 and had to be controlled as soon as possible; the other believed that AI was just an ordinary technology and that the pause was to control humanity. Vitalik claims to be open to slowing down or suspending without knowing which side is right, but opposes the argument that large AI companies promote “open-source harmful” as being essentially a concentration of power. Vitalik offered a compromise: the parties could agree in advance to initiate the AI moratorium if certain extremes (such as super-epidemics, mass unemployment, etc.) actually occurred; if these did not occur, the other party would proceed with the other party ' s programme. He acknowledged that all responses were flawed and that human beings could only choose between “unperfect” and “unperfect”, but that defensive technologies such as form validation, cryptography and security hardware were worth advancing in both worlds。