A short summary of AI 2040: Plan A

LessWrong reports on Plan A, a proposal from the AI Futures Project for a temporary international pause on advanced AI research, with countries publicly declaring their compute infrastructure. Research would then resume under Total Research Transparency, requiring frontier AI companies to open-source their algorithms and provide model access. The plan includes mechanisms to make AI progress reversible and proposes a citizen's dividend for technological unemployment. The authors argue this balances the risks of rapid AI development against a permanent pause, which they say would eventually crumble.

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