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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...

Can advanced AI be governed by a US–China arms-control deal, by keeping dangerous models in a few monitored hubs, or by using AI to watch AI? The leading proposals, most notably AI-2040 “Plan A” (a compute treaty, bandwidth monitoring, and Mutually A...

Middle powers should combine complementary national assets and pool the capabilities that require scale, while preserving national and commercial control over applications, deployment, language, and sector-specific use. Shared efforts could include m...

The answer isn't convergence for its own sake. We can push too hard on one thing. But if you have one standard, you could risk a lowest common denominator outcome that can cost us the innovation system as well and might have a risk on the national in...

But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom. We believe this will be true with AI as well, and the abundance of the future can be shared by everyone.

This is still a viable conspiracy theory that could be true. As far as I'm concerned, it's more likely to be true than the wet market origins. So, I think that's why, again during COVID, what I would have liked to see is our public policymakers and p...

In the 78-page document, we determined that most of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, meaning that it came from an animal.

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete.

This is still a viable conspiracy theory that could be true. As far as I'm concerned, it's more likely to be true than the wet market origins. So, I think that's why, again during COVID, what I would have liked to see is our public policymakers and p...

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete.

The majority of virologists and epidemiologists who have examined the question conclude that the available evidence favors a natural spillover origin. No credible evidence links NIH-funded research to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.