Nien Ping Liu (Rupert Liu) on The U.S. and China should establish Mut…

Nien Ping Liu (Rupert Liu)

Independent AI-governance researcher and author of the Governance Operating System (GOS) research series.

Can advanced AI be governed by a US–China arms-control deal, by keeping dangerous models in a few monitored hubs, or by using AI to watch AI? The leading proposals, most notably AI-2040 “Plan A” (a compute treaty, bandwidth monitoring, and Mutually Assured Compute Destruction), all try to buy safety by controlling who holds capability. […] First, capping capability is caught in four paradoxes that no patch can remove, because algorithmic progress keeps cutting the compute needed and the upstream chokepoints are already weapons of rivalry.

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Nien Ping Liu (Rupert Liu), “The Governance Operating System (GOS): A Physical Constitution for Sovereign Cyber-Physical AI Part VIII — Two Paradigms for Global AI Strategy: A Systems Examination of US–China Arms Control (‘Plan A’) and a Trust-Free Hardware Accord,” SSRN, October 4, 2026.

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

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

Plan A is capability-dependent and deal-dependent; its load-bearing conditions are weak or self-contradictory; and in the end it must trust the machine. The paper then sets out the alternative: a trust-free accord built on GOS.

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