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AI policy lagging research; political will, not ideas, is the constraint

AI policy lagging research; political will, not ideas, is the constraint

A Les­s­Wrong analysis argues that AI safety research has already produced sufficient knowledge and best practices to address catastrophic risks, but these are not being applied or enforced. The author estimates that a majority of the top approximately 100–1,000 most influential policymakers worldwide have never had a serious conversation about catastrophic risk, and fewer than 1% of civil-society submissions to the UN Global Dialogue mention existential risks.

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