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Research transparency makes it easier for countries to negotiate and enforce further agreements by letting them observe one another's activities.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“And because you have this transparency set up, it's a lot easier for countries to make additional further agreements.”
“agreements about what to do and what not to do because they can just see what everybody is doing and so they can just enforce the agreements pretty easily for example and here's where we would say it's very important that they agree not to do a crazy intelligence explosion and instead proceed slowly and consciously and it's very important that they agree to do all this control setup with all the red teaming and so forth and but but because of the transparency they can make those agreements on an ad hoc”Play from 1:12:11Report a misattribution
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