Expert opinions on International Relations

Surely the time for giving advice to the tech companies is over. I welcome the Government’s Bill on cyber security and resilience, but it does not extend to AI. Will the UK lead the way and co-ordinate a global agreement on the transparency, oversigh...

A one-size-fits-all approach to AI governance will not be effective. We all face different risks, priorities, levels of digital development, and regulatory environments. Effective governance requires shared principles that can be implemented flexibly...

America’s cutting-edge chips and advanced technology must never be used to power the AI systems that support China’s military and intelligence apparatuses, especially at the expense of American innovators. FDD Action endorses the AI OVERWATCH Act, be...

They would have to limit everything.

Decisions involving the use of force, escalation, or nuclear command-and-control must remain subject to meaningful human control and accountable command.

The Government strongly believes that there is a need to maintain meaningful human control of all weapons systems, including any systems that may be developed. Our position is that, for such systems to comply with international humanitarian law, cont...

As a humanitarian and a human rights attorney, I’m all for effective arms control, but effective means meaningful and enforceable. Given that lethal autonomy is essentially with us now, as many examples show, I don’t see how an effective arms control...

The international community must build an equitable and measurable framework. This is our historic mission.

The time has come for a more systematic approach to AI regulation — funded by the industry, staffed by world-class technical experts, and answerable to the U.S. government.

“[It is] important to bring American AI technology across the full stack to partners and allies across the globe.”

Managing and understanding these risks effectively requires appropriate information flows across the ecosystem, ensuring timely notification of actionable information to the right sets of actors.

Rather than creating entirely new channels, policymakers should focus on ensuring that existing channels can effectively incorporate information related to frontier models and agents. Building on trusted relationships will be faster and more effectiv...

We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

The question that the noble Lord posed was: do we therefore go for a moratorium? That would be highly desirable, but I do not think that it will be possible in the short term.

The conclusion is sobering: a global stop to the development of superintelligent AI seems impossible.

I believe Sovereign AI is going to be one of the most important things this government does to build a better future for our country.

The EU’s ambition to triple data centre capacity is the right one. But the way to achieve that goal is by attracting investment, not shutting it out.

A compute permit system would face its own challenges: defining which training runs qualify as high-stakes, preventing developers from fragmenting workloads to stay below thresholds, and ensuring that monitoring infrastructure does not become a tool ...

According to the proposed rule, a covered US person will be required to provide quarterly reports to BIS if the US person “engages in, or plans, within six months, to engage in ‘applicable activities.’” “Applicable activities” include: “Conducting a...

A regulatory trigger calibrated to compute volume does not measure what it purports to measure, and it was designed around a snapshot of model architecture that the industry has already moved beyond.

We reiterate bipartisan calls for strict enforcement of export controls and the closure of loopholes that allow AI chips and manufacturing equipment to reach Beijing.

China consistently opposes any practice of overstretching the concept of national security and abusing export controls.

We think it’s still good to recommend what would actually be good, even if you think that your audience is probably not going to listen.

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...

Advanced AI capabilities, computing infrastructure, and investment remain concentrated among a limited number of actors. Inclusive governance must ensure that all countries have the capacity and voice to shape how AI is developed, deployed, and regul...

The Republic of Korea declared our vision for establishing global AI hub together with 9 participating UN and related organizations to contribute to strengthening of global AI capacity.

But the main regret I have with this talk is that I wish I had prepared a more for the section on a “CERN for AI.” The idea behind such a project is to pool many countries’ and companies’ resources into a single (possibly physically decentralized) ci...

Currently, so many needs for innovation are put under the label of AI that there will be no way to address them with a single organisation.

Create a single, dedicated talent hub, accompanied by 1-5 separate compute hubs;

A semi-distributed structure, with a few core facilities, leveraging members' comparative advantages. Core facilities—fewer in number than the participating states—are necessary to create a critical mass of talent. Similarly, distributed compute can ...

Coordinated deployment of existing, planned, and within-reach European and other bridge power AI compute capacity is likely to provide sufficient computational resources to produce frontier AI models in the next few years, although significantly more...