Expert opinions on Cybersecurity

UK ministers having emergency powers to deactivate powerful AI systems and switch off the country's data centers is a necessary safeguard.

If you’re relying on a ‘kill switch’ to stop an AI agent, you’ve already made a fundamental mistake. A properly governed agent is simply never handed the task, so there is nothing to kill.

Instead we want to be in a situation where if both sides want a deal, then they can prove to each other that they’re complying with the deal. You want to be in a situation where the Chinese government at least knows where all the Chinese chips are, a...

SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandat...

One of its more interesting recommendations is something called Mutually Assured Compute Destruction. America would build its new datacentres in Mongolia and China would build theirs in Canada. If the agreement collapsed, each side would destroy its ...

A doctrine whose trigger mechanism can be this thoroughly disputed cannot function as a deterrent. Deterrence requires certainty. MAD worked because both sides knew, with something close to certainty, what a launch would produce. MACD, as currently s...