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Scenario Scrutiny for AI Policy

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A call for concrete stress-testing of AI policy proposals

AI 2027 was a descriptive forecast. Our next big project will be prescriptive: a scenario showing roughly how we think the US government should act during AI takeoff, accompanied by a “policy playbook” arguing for these recommendations. One reason we’re producing a scenario alongside our playbook at all—as opposed to presenting our policies only as abstract arguments—is to stress-test them. We think many policy proposals for navigating AGI fall apart under scenario scrutiny—that is, if you try to write down a plausible scenario in which that proposal makes the world better, you will find…

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