NYT: Can the AI Arms Race Stop Short of Disaster? Lessons from Cold War Arms Control
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-01
The NYT's Amanda Taub unpacks Andrew Koh's new paper on the game theory of pacing the AI frontier, framing it against the Cuban Missile Crisis: even as bitter enemies, the US and USSR built hotlines, test bans and a complex arms-control regime after nearly stumbling into nuclear war. The article asks whether a similar off-ramp exists for AI—and, citing recent policy developments including a White House agreement, what it would take to stop the race short of the brink.
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