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Davey seeks global AI treaty

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At the Liberal Democrats' conference in Brighton, leader Ed Davey urged a global, nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt development of super-intelligent artificial intelligence.

Foreign Affairs
The Trouble With the Nuclear-AI Analogy

In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has called artificial intelligence “far more dangerous than nukes. ” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who assigns The Making of the Atomic Bomb to employees and has likened himself to the Manhattan Project scientist Leo Szilard, describes the most powerful AI models as “weaponizable nuclear materials. ” When asked how a technology such as AI can be regulated, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman often references the world’s nuclear materials watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Even the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, has made the same comparison. These comparisons capture real parallels. Like nuclear weapons, frontier AI is powerful and hard to control. Like nuclear technology, it can be used for good or for ill. And like the Cold War arms race, the race for AI breakthroughs may reorder the global balance of power. The nuclear analogy, then, seems to offer a blueprint for how to effectively govern a promising but potentially dangerous technology such as AI.

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The Guardian
Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say

At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem Ed Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intelligent AI when he makes his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat conference, accusing Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and “tech bros” to solve the problem. When he addresses the faithful on the final day of the gathering in Brighton, the party leader will call for a global pause on super-intelligent AI, comparing it to a nuclear arms race that could result in technology that could “destroy us all”. Continue reading. . .

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