Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally

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  • Broderick McDonald
    Research Fellow at King's College London (XCEPT) and Oxford Emerging Threats Group; Visiting Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute; AI security researcher
    votes Against and says:
    Middle powers like the UK and Canada will not win the race for ever larger AI models, but through collaboration they can win the deployment race.
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  • Anton Leicht
    Visiting scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; researcher on the political economy of AI
    votes Against and says:
    Middle powers share a structural condition: none of them will build frontier AI, all of them must import it, and each of them possesses enough institutional or industrial substance that the choices they make will genuinely matter far beyond their bor...
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