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Plan A expects governments to make technically complex decisions, including how much AI scaling to permit.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“basically so the transparency will help help at least somewhat with that um the other thing that maybe transparency helps a lot with is uh is sort of this issue of just like government capacity where in plan a we sort of want governments to make these like pretty technical and and like really complicated decisions on like hey exactly how much ai scaling to allow like”
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