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Policy scenario·2026AI-generated draftSource unchecked

AI 2040: Plan S, Shutdown

Thomas Larsen · Romeo Dean · Brendan Halstead · Eli Lifland · Ryan Greenblatt · Daniel Kokotajlo

A new President wins a global moratorium because China fears an American superintelligence more than it wants its own: chips are tracked and verified to run only inference, algorithm research is banned, and mutual auditors watch every project. Existing AIs keep working and get polished into near-AGI products, covert projects crawl under a scientific taboo, and the halt holds for some years while the world argues about whether and how to restart.

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Novel·1965AI-generated draftSource unchecked

Dune

Frank Herbert

People hand their thinking to machines, a few people use those machines to enslave the rest, a century-long religious crusade destroys the machines, and a ten-thousand-year civilization is built on the prohibition and on human substitutes that concentrate power in new hands.

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