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Engineers build AI verification tools to enable global slowdown

A small team at Amodo Design is developing monitoring technology that could verify compliance with an AI slowdown treaty—if one ever gets negotiated.

What to know

  • Over 1,300 AI researchers publicly warned their systems are becoming uncontrollable and called for an international slowdown—but say competition makes voluntary braking impossible.
  • Fewer than 50 engineers worldwide are building AI verification technology that could enable treaty compliance, funded mostly by philanthropy rather than industry or government.
  • Any slowdown treaty requires U.S.-China agreement and verification tools that don't yet exist; Amodo is betting that when political will emerges, the technology will be ready.

“As the race to build ever more powerful AI accelerates, a small group of engineers is working on the technology that could make slowing down possible.”

Billy Perrigo, Time journalist · Time · Aug 15

Tom Milton CEO, Amodo DesignAmodo Design Consultancy developing AI verification1,300+ AI company employees Signatories of open letter

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  1. The People Building a Way to Slow Down the AI Race press · Mastodon · Billy Perrigo / Sheffield, England · 42d ago · 5▲ · +1 outlet