One-Minute Briefing
For staff who will not read a white paper. Hand this over. Speak the bold lines. Sit down.
Private labs are racing toward artificial superintelligence. There is no treaty, no inspectorate, and no verified off switch. The scientific warnings are not fringe. The governance gap is total.
Three moves
1. Domestic law: license large training runs; require independent pre-deployment evaluation.
2. Multilateral talks: open negotiations on a prohibition with verification.
3. Funding: expand independent evaluation and treaty-design capacity, not only lab safety theater.
Prevention, narrow AI safe
We are not asking to freeze medicine or software. We are asking to prohibit autonomous general systems past a capability line until control is solved. Precedents: NPT, chemical weapons ban, Montreal Protocol.
Anticipated objection
"China will not play along." Then build verification (chip tracking, cluster inspection) and treat defection as an enforcement problem. A unilateral sprint to an uncontrollable system is not a strategy. Contact for a staff briefing: nakadafoundation.org/contact/