Scott Alexander on The U.S. and China should establish Mut…

Scott Alexander

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Plan A feels like our best hope to do something actually good.

AI Verified (Jul 9, 2026)

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The U.S. and China should establish Mutually Assured Compute Destruction

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AI Verified Alexander calls Plan A the best hope; source context identifies MACD as part of the plan. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Alexander calls Plan A the best hope; MACD is part of it: for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

If so, is it as good as Plan A? If not, consider demanding that they do better.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

Then, in the mid-2030s, they pause at AIs around the level of top human geniuses. These AIs are close enough to current AIs that the same alignment techniques that mostly-sort-of-work for ours might mostly-sort-of-work for them too... The plan is to ...

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