It is difficult to imagine the kinds of extreme policy or legal options required for government to assert control over AI development until something actually happens, suggesting that scenario planning around extreme options like nationalization of frontier labs is valuable even if currently infeasible or undesirable, to avoid being intellectually bankrupt when such moments arrive.
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Joel PreddEvidence Quote
“It's hard to imagine the kind of extreme options that would be required from a policy or even legal perspective for the government to assert control over AI development until something happens. And this is an example where our plan's line of effort proves really valuable.”
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Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems— The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietyCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:41:23 AM
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