Expert opinions on Cybersecurity

Which is why US lawmakers put forward legislation, dubbed the ‘Kill Switch Act’, which would require companies to have a way to shut down problematic AI tools. Tragically, the proposal was quickly shot down.

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.

Licensed hardware systems would come equipped with (or, in the case of pre-pause hardware, be retrofitted for) on-chip location attestation (e.g., latency-based location) to ensure that they remained at their registered location and visible to treaty...

Location verification—which would allow regulators to determine where AI chips are located—has emerged as a key proposal to strengthen export control enforcement efforts. [...] We recommend that location verification be required only for data center ...

Pursuing AI dominance will provoke intense sabotage efforts by rivals. The US and China have clear incentives to race each other to greater AI capabilities; sole access to a sufficiently powerful AI system could give the country that developed it geo...

Plan A is the alternative. Delay superintelligence to 2040. Make all AI research public. Let dozens of companies in dozens of countries catch up to the frontier. And enter, deliberately and with eyes open, a regime of mutually assured compute destruc...

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...