Woofun AI reports that Vitalik Buterin stated he remains open to an AI slowdown or pause given significant uncertainty regarding superintelligence timelines. He expressed discomfort with the stance of some large AI companies advocating for global control, noting that if current AI were merely ordinary technology, he would align with critics who underestimate coordination risks. Vitalik indicated support for the d/acc platform because it advances formal verification, cryptography, and secure hardware under competing worldviews. He noted that the 2040 plan now supports open source and "mutually assured compute destruction," which he views as an improvement over selective rights stripping. Vitalik suggested that trigger conditions could be pre-set for future pauses and remarked that if he were Elon Musk or Zuck, he might transform Twitter to facilitate broader discussion on these trade-offs, though he acknowledged this view might be naive.