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Second, we are likely to eventually need something like an IAEA for superintelligence efforts; any effort above a certain capability (or resources like compute) threshold will need to be subject to an international authority that can inspect systems, require audits, test for compliance with safety standards, place restrictions on degrees of deployment and levels of security, etc. Tracking compute and energy usage could go a long way, and give us some hope this idea could actually be implementable. As a first step, companies could voluntarily agree to begin implementing elements of what such an agency might one day require, and as a second, individual countries could implement it. It would be important that such an agency focus on reducing existential risk and not issues that should be left to individual countries, such as defining what an AI should be allowed to say.
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AI Verified OpenAI URL is blocked from WebFetch, but search results confirmed the quote is from OpenAI's "Governance of superintelligence" blog post (May 22, 2023) by Altman, Brockman, Sutskever. The quote text matches exactly. However, the quote was incorrectly attached to the statement "Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN" - the quote is actually about an IAEA-like inspection/regulatory body, NOT a CERN-like research institute. I removed the quote-statement association. The quote remains accurate in content and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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