AI international cooperation should be standards-setting, not arms control, researcher argues
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-16
Researcher mchorowitz argues that international cooperation on AI will be incredibly hard even if everyone wants it, because AI is a general-purpose technology whose economic gains create strong incentives for development and use. The realistic model is standard setting, not arms control — a distinction Ethan Mollick and others highlighted as important.
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