Nate Soares on The U.S. and China should establish Mut…

Nate Soares

AI safety researcher; MIRI president

I doubt their Plan A would work as written, but it’d have a chance of producing evidence that convinced world leaders to switch to Plan S, which I think has a shot.

AI Verified (Jul 11, 2026)

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

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AI Verified Soares says Plan A is unlikely to work and instead favors Plan S; this opposes its MACD approach. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Soares doubts Plan A and favors Plan S instead: against. · 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

I think we've got to take this as a warning shot to not make them smarter, and that probably is going to require global collaboration.

AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026)

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

I doubt their Plan A would work as written.

AI Verified source (Jul 11, 2026)

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

If we build it using anything remotely like modern methods, on anything remotely like the current understanding or lack of understanding that we have about AI, then yeah, building it anytime soon would be a death sentence.

AI Verified source (2026)

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