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Tom Davidson

AI governance researcher

If the deal breaks down and there’s a race to superintelligence, it will be much faster and more dangerous than if we’d never done Plan A.

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

Overall, I’m sympathetic to Plan A. The basic logic of the plan is sound: we will need to slow down AI progress at some point; this is a concrete plan for doing that. [...] But currently I lean towards starting with software scaling.

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

So even conditional on the political will for implementing Plan A existing, it currently seems unlikely that US/China follow through on MACD on fabs and robots (most of their economy!). And if they don't, we are back to the problem of dry tinder and ...

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Democracies should share frontier AI models with allies

Middle powers should help the US, and make sure they are rewarded with continued access to frontier AI and new technologies (including military tech).

AI Verified source (May 27, 2026)