Comment by Connor Leahy

The primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place. Unsafe ASI is vastly easier to build than controlled ASI, and is on the same tech path. [...] The point of an ASI ban/pause is to create the time to reduce the gap between unsafe and controlled ASI, until it's sufficiently narrow that competent people can walk across without falling through. Unverified source (2026)