Bring the World Along

• International Public Cooperation and Governance Boards: We should negotiate a US-China treaty to pause and ban superintelligence, modeled on the Cold War deal in which Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated a class of nuclear missiles through inspections. A verification board would count chips and data centers, a scientific panel would share threat assessments, and a 24-hour hotline would flag incidents. Access to American chips and cloud services should be conditioned on signing and complying, and we should tighten chip export controls now.

• No AI in Nuclear Command and Control: Humans, and only humans, should decide whether to use nuclear weapons. That is already US policy: Biden and Xi agreed to it in 2024. We must make it permanent, cover early warning and decision support, keep frontier AI out of the chain, and get every nuclear nation to sign on.

Safeguards Everyone Can Count On

• Independent Audits: Outside experts test frontier AI before release. Even leading AI companies now accept this.

• Protect Whistleblowers: Insiders who sound the alarm should get legal protection, back pay, and rewards.

• Hands Off State Laws: No weak federal law should block states from protecting their people more strongly.

• Be Ready: We need a national AI emergency plan, with regular drills across government.

• Get AI Money Out of the Fight: Full disclosure of AI-industry political spending, including through super PACs and other dark money entities.