Kokotajlo tells middle powers to loudly treat superintelligence as real — emergency declarations, summits, audits
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-11-13
Daniel Kokotajlo (AI 2027) answers what Australia and other middle powers can do about AI right now: use their voice, loudly declaring superintelligence risks could materialize within 1–3 years and treating them as threats to sovereignty and lives.
- Costly signals of seriousness: declaring a national emergency, calling up reserves, distributing PPE, banning AI companies unless they allow third-party risk assessments (UK/AUS AISI access to incidents like Hugging Face), and hosting a 72-hour world summit on recursively self-improving AI.
- His cascade logic: even in the US a supermajority opposes superintelligence; one government treating it as real shifts global discourse from mockery to "stop immediately."
- He concedes governments won't act until they believe the risks are real — so making them believe is the key task.
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