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Preventing covert ASI development in countries within our agreement — LessWrong

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We at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s Technical Governance Team have proposed an illustrative international agreement (blog post) to halt the development of superintelligence until it can be done safely. For those who haven’t read it already, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the agreement before reading this post. This post addresses a common objection to our proposed international agreement to halt ASI development: that countries would simply cheat by pursuing covert ASI projects. The agreement makes large, covert, ASI projects hard to hide by monitoring chip supply chains and data centers (via supplier audits, satellite/power analysis, inspections, whistleblowers, etc.) and by verifying chip use. It also prohibits risky AI research and verifies that this research is not taking place through various potential methods, such as embedding auditors in high-risk organizations. Some leakage is expected on both fronts, but we’re optimistic that it’s not enough to run or

x Preventing covert ASI development in countries within our agreement — LessWrong AI Governance Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) AI Frontpage 39 Preventing covert ASI development in countries within our agreement by Aaron_Scher 19th Nov 2025 14 min read 2 39 We at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s Technical Governance Team have proposed an illustrative international agreement ( blog post ) to halt the development of superintelligence until it can be done safely. For those who haven’t read it already, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the agreement before readin

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