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

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  The simplest form of treaty would be something like this, that the countries agree that if they do develop advanced AI: * That it will be done in a safe way. So maybe using techniques like Scientist AI or whatever else we have strong assurances for. ...

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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...

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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

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  Lord Fairfax of Cameron

  Scottish hereditary peer; Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; AI safety advocate

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  In the face of these threats, I urge the Government to take the following steps: first, to publicly recognise that superintelligence poses an extinction threat to humanity; secondly, for the UK to prevent the development of superintelligence on its s...

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  Lord Strasburger

  Liberal Democrat life peer

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  A moratorium and binding international regulation of ASI is, frankly, our only hope, however hard it will be to agree. It will be even harder to enforce, but we have to do it; there is no choice.

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  PauseAI

  Global campaign to pause frontier AI

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  This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. ...

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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).

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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 [...].

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  Pope Francis

  Head of the Catholic Church (2013–2025)

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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.

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  Erika Guevara Rosas

  Amnesty International senior director

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  If there is one clear takeaway from the India AI Impact Summit, it is that these gatherings have time and again proven largely irrelevant and ineffective at advancing binding rights protections or the safeguards necessary in the context of immense AI...

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  It's very important that we have international summits to bring the international community together [...] make sure the opportunities benefit the whole world

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  Anthony Aguirre

  Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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  The assurance dilemma has a solution in the form of assurance mechanisms: processes that allow parties to verify compliance with agreements. [...] Nuclear non-proliferation treaties, for example, rely on monitoring uranium supplies and enrichment fac...

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  José Cepeda

  Spanish MEP (S&D); co-rapporteur for the EU Parliament's approval of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI

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  The conclusion of the Framework Convention showcases the EU's commitment to safe development and deployment of AI. [...] AI must serve people, strengthen open societies, and uphold a European model founded on human dignity, transparency, and accounta...

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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.

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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

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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

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  Akash Wasil

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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).

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  Ursula von der Leyen

  President of the European Commission

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  First of all, let’s not forget that A.I. is a tremendous opportunity — if used responsibly. But responsibility at the frontier cannot be left to chance or to any single company or country. Just as the world built institutions to govern nuclear power ...

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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) [...].

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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 [...].

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  House Armed Services Committee — Future of 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

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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.

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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

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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

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  If somebody says, 'This technology is so powerful that we need a global treaty to slow it down,' then I would say: Then take your foot off the accelerator yourself if you think it's moving too fast.

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  Michael Kratsios

  U.S. OSTP Director

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  We totally reject global governance of AI. We believe AI adoption cannot lead to a brighter future if it is subject to bureaucracies and centralized control. Prioritizing AI for your people does not mean joining international efforts that are either ...

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  Ian J. Stewart

  Nonproliferation expert and scholar

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  But the nuclear governance model is actually not a good one for regulation of Artificial General Intelligence.

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  Lauren Lovelace

  U.S. Mission counselor at the United Nations

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  a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence [...] AI governance is not a matter for the U.N. to dictate. [...] We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impo...

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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 ...

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