Polymarket gives 8% odds to a US-China AI frontier pacing agreement in 2026
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-16
Polymarket opened a market on whether the US and China announce an AI pacing agreement in 2026, currently pricing it at just 8% with $12,732 in volume. Resolution requires both governments to formally accept a deal committing to at least one constraint on AI developers: safety-conditioned training/release, compute caps, limits on recursive self-improvement, or pausing frontier AI. Intent-only statements don't count. The thread also cites Huawei's forecast of 900 billion active AI agents by 2035 — roughly 100x the human population.
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