Prevention
Preserve the ability to choose.
W360 Global Intelligence advocates preventing artificial superintelligence and closing the routes by which dangerous capabilities could be rebuilt. Examine the proposal and what it would require.
A workable prevention policy must preserve essential services, protect ordinary liberties, and remain enforceable as technology changes. These are part of the proposal’s success conditions.
A pause, a capability ceiling, and a rollback
Stopping the next training run, limiting permitted capabilities, and reducing capabilities already in circulation solve different parts of the problem.
Read the explanationWhat could rebuild a prohibited capability?
A restriction lasts only if it addresses the ways dangerous capabilities could survive, spread, or be reconstructed.
Read the explanationCould an international limit be verified?
An international agreement needs practical ways to detect violations and incentives that make compliance more attractive than a secret race.
Read the explanationProtect rights and keep essential services working
Prevention must preserve democratic authority, privacy, livelihoods, and the services people rely on during a transition.
Read the explanationWhat useful technology could remain?
A prevention policy should clearly describe the research, tools, and services it would preserve, and the tests for deciding what is permitted.
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