Jeffrey Ladish on The U.S. and China should establish Mut…

Jeffrey Ladish

Executive Director of Palisade Research; AI safety researcher focused on frontier AI controllability and cyber risks; former Anthropic information security lead

We’re in a pretty dire situation, but we can change course! I highly recommend checking out @DKokotajlo Plan A write-up & AI 2040 scenario.

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

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AI Verified Ladish recommends Plan A; source identifies MACD as a Plan A element. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

If there wasn’t national and international coordination to prevent us from losing control of that, we would lose control of that.

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Build artificial general intelligence

If I can only convey one thing about AI: Companies are racing to develop AIs that will outcompete humans at everything. Not just "jobs" but also politics, strategy, persuasion, influence. If anyone builds a country of geniuses in a datacenter, those ...

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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment

Several state-of-the-art language models, when presented with a simple task, sometimes actively subvert a shutdown mechanism in their environment to complete that task — doing so up to 97% of the time, even with an explicit instruction not to interfe...

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