Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation

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  Paul Scharre

  CNAS executive and weapons expert

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  It was a set of interlocking global institutions—the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the International Atomic Energy Agency, [...] Could we do something similar for AI? Unverified source (2024)

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  Sundeep Waslekar

  Strategic Foresight Group president

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  The agreement should establish an upper limit on computing power: [...] Think of this as an inverse Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Unverified source (2025)

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  Volodymyr Zelenskyy

  President of Ukraine

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  We need global rules – now! – for how AI can be used in weapons. This is just as urgent as preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Unverified source (2025)

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  Satya Nadella

  Microsoft CEO

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  But if there is going to be a successful [...] "regime of control" over AI, then we will need some global cooperation like the IAEA. Unverified source (2023)

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  We've certainly done this [...] handle nuclear materials. These all require licensing regimes [...] I can imagine the same kind of regime [...] with these large language models. Unverified source (2023)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  Ultimately, we may need something like cern Global, international and neutral, but focused on AI safety rather than high energy physics. Unverified source (2023)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  We talk about the IAEA as a model where the world has said "OK, very dangerous technology, let's all put some guard rails." Unverified source (2023)

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  Pope Francis

  Leader of the Catholic Church

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  I urge the global community of nations [...] to adopt a binding international treaty that regulates the development and use of artificial intelligence in its many forms. Unverified source (2023)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  The international community has a long history of responding to new technologies with the potential to disrupt our societies and economies. We have come together at the United Nations to set new international rules, sign new treaties, and establish n... more Unverified source (2023)

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  The FLI Team

  AI safety think tank staff

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  The view that “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war” is now mainstream, with that statement being endorsed by a who’s who of AI experts and though... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Toby Walsh

  Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence

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  I strongly believe that worrying about the definition of AWS is a distraction from making progress on regulating this space. Let me give an analogy. Nuclear weapons are never defined in any UN treaty regarding the proliferation or prohibition of nuc... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Peter Bittner

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  A bilateral U.S.-China agreement on AI regulation could be instrumental [...] using the NPT as a model. Unverified source

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  House Armed Services Committee — Future of Defense Task Force

  U.S. congressional defense task force

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  [T]he United States should lead in the formulation and ratification of a global treaty on Artificial Intelligence [...] the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Unverified source (2020)

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  Fu Cong

  Chinese arms control diplomat

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  We should push forward negotiations on cyber space, outer space, artificial intelligence [...] concluding legally-binding international instruments or codes of conduct as soon as possible Unverified source (2024)

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  Marija Pejčinović Burić

  Council of Europe Secretary General

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  The Framework Convention is an open treaty with a potentially global reach. I hope [...] followed quickly by ratifications Unverified source (2024)

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  Andrea Miotti

  Founder and CEO of ControlAI

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  governing nuclear technology to avoid a global catastrophe required international cooperation. [...] the development of advanced artificial intelligence Unverified source

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  AI researcher and writer

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  Make immediate multinational agreements to prevent the prohibited activities from moving elsewhere. [...] preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a [...] nuclear exchange Unverified source (2023)

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  Vladimir Putin

  President of Russia

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  Humanity can agree on common principles of controlling artificial intelligence similar to the nuclear non-proliferation rules Unverified source

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  that isn’t a good starting point for any kind of international coordination treaty [...] similar to what happened, as you said, with nuclear weapons Unverified source (2026)

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  Seth Moulton

  U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

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  Such an agreement would require a new verification organization, analogous to the International Atomic Energy Agency, [...]. But if we could achieve pathbreaking agreements on nonproliferation [...]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Rufo Guerreschi

  Policy writer, Trustless Computing Association

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  Back in 1946, as the world grappled with the looming threat of nuclear weapons, [...] a treaty-making process for an International AI Development Authority [...]. Unverified source (2024)

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  Geoffrey Odlum

  Former US diplomat, NSC director

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  I fully support [...] the negotiation of an international AI safety treat. [...] the Treaty of the Non-Prolifreation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) [...]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Robi Rahman

  AI governance writer, MIRI TGT

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  An ASI nonproliferation agreement can be effective even without complete worldwide adoption. Unverified source (2025)

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  Akash Wasil

  Lawfare contributing writer

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  The IAEA presents a clear verification methodology [...] a model for AI governance. [...] verifying compliance with the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Unverified source (2024)

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  With nuclear weapons, [...] they can't [...] in secret, but with developing new types of AI, it's much easier [...] So it's not enough to have an agreement. Unverified source (2018)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does. Unverified source (2023)

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  Malcolm Davis

  Senior analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute

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  Our authoritarian adversaries, like Russia and China, and rogue states like North Korea are not going to sign up to this ban, he said. [Automated weapons] will completely change the speed and efficiency with which armies can kill the other side, he ... more Unverified source (2017)

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  David Westin

  Bloomberg anchor, Wall Street Week host

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  So when Mustafa Suleiman says we need to have some kind of international agreement, some kind of framework, I think he knows that this ain't happening and it's certainly not happening fast enough. Well, I mean, the Cold War analogy is helpful here b... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Michael Kratsios

  U.S. OSTP Director

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  We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI. Unverified source (2025)

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  Ian J. Stewart

  Nonproliferation expert and scholar

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  It is also not clear that AI can be safeguarded in a way that’s comparable to nuclear materials. Unverified source (2023)

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