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Yukowski advocates for active rather than passive safety measures: building off switches and tracking all high-powered AI hardware globally. He suggests international cooperation to regulate resources like GPUs, which fuel AI development, and establish early warning systems to halt or slow progress if signs of unaligned behavior emerge.
The Race and Its Ethical Implications
The competition between countries and corporations exacerbates these risks. The drive to be first with superintelligence creates a "race to the bottom," where safety considerations are sacrificed for immediate gains. This fool's mate scenario—where rushing headlong into superintelligence without safeguards leads to inevitable disaster—is a core concern.