international-coordination

William MacAskill @willmacaskill Today I'm publishing a series of research notes on the idea of an international AGI project. The aim is to assess how desirable an international AGI project is, and what the best version of such a project is (taking feasibility into account). The main result is a proposal I call "Intelsat for AGI" — modelled the international project that developed the first global satellite communications network. The core idea is that we can get most of the benefits of an international project by giving non-US countries meaningful influence over only a relatively small number of decisions. By making non-US influence circumscribed in this way, and letting the US call the shots day to day, the proposal becomes both more feasible and less likely to get bogged down in bureaucracy. The full series has discussion of why this might be desirable, what the AGI project should focus on, and how to make this more likely. Most of this work was written as part of a research avenue that we don't currently plan to pursue further. It's more like work-in-progress than Forethought's usual publications, but we're sharing it as we think some people may find it useful.