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Another proposed mitigation is proactive intelligence gathering to find concealed compute during the slowdown period, which the speaker describes as a ten-year scenario but says could last longer or shorter.

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

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“And the second is sort of just like do normal intelligence gathering and like look for these things proactively over the course of the 10 years,”
“like the 10 years slow down having the scenario, which, you know, in reality, it might be longer or shorter and sort of like try to find it. And I think for basically for any significant size.”
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