Ramez Naam on The U.S. and China should establish Mut…

Ramez Naam

Science author and futurist

These proposals violate at minimum the spirit of the 1st and 4th Amendments. This is well intentioned, from people who sincerely believe that runaway AI is a greater risk than, say, China’s oppression of millions of people today, or the ideologies that killed tens of millions in the 20th century. I profoundly disagree. This is a recipe for authoritarianism.

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

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AI Verified Naam calls Plan A restrictions authoritarian; source context includes MACD, establishing opposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

This is a recipe for authoritarianism.

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We can see this more directly. There are already entities with vastly greater than human intelligence working on the problem of augmenting their own intelligence. A great many, in fact. We call them corporations. And while we may have a variety of th...

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