josefely

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“What I mean by slowing AI down is building a mechanism where the US and China can agree on a rate of progress and stick to it, as opposed to letting progress go as fast as possible.”
How could the US and China verifiably slow AI?LessWrong, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. The author defines the kind of slowdown the post discusses.
“compute governance is not a way to stall AI capability gains indefinitely — it is a wasting asset that becomes less effective over time, and less effective the later it starts.”
How could the US and China verifiably slow AI?LessWrong, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. The author on the limits of governing AI through compute.
“If the US unilaterally shut down any further AI R&D, China would surpass our capabilities in less than half of one US congressional cycle, if their rate of progress remained constant.”
How could the US and China verifiably slow AI?LessWrong, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. The author's estimate, based on the Epoch Capabilities Index gap between top US and Chinese models, of why a unilateral slowdown fails.

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    How could the US and China verifiably slow AI?

    In a first LessWrong post, josefely explains why a unilateral US slowdown would not work and surveys ways a US-China agreement on AI compute could be verified: remote sensing, on-site inspection and tamper-resistant chip hardware. A closing scenario imagines an agreement after a major AI-enabled cyberattack. The author says the ideas come from existing papers.