August Newsletter: DC Rountables, New Summary, New Memo & Traction
While it is becoming ever harder to distinguish noise from signal in AI safety and policy, the Overton window of US AI policy keeps on widening dramatically — with direct and indirect calls for a bold and timely US-China-led AI treaty increasing.
One thousand AI scientists, and the two leading US AI firms, OpenAI and Anthropic, requested that "the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development". At the same time, many AI leaders remain (rightly!) greatly concerned about enormous risks of improper AI treaty-making.
President Xi issued stark warnings about the risk of (permanent) loss of human control over AI while calling for shared benefits. His statement, "We must make its oversight and governance precise and effective, and constantly refine measures to forestall loss of control" — unequivocally signals the need for highly empowered global institutions with "radical optionality".
While US-China AI dialogues are planned for early September, in advance of the Xi visit to the White House on September 24th, the publicly-known scale and pace of the US executive analysis of an AI treaty that is up to the challenge — and of US-China AI diplomacy — are orders of magnitude smaller than they should be at this stage.
We are out to change that by facilitating the dialogue and convergence among a critical mass of key "humans first" US executive-branch AI policy powerbrokers regarding a new, extraordinarily bold and timely AI policy, that is cohesive, proper and widely supported.
To that end, in the last two weeks, we received interest from 5 leading AI policy think tanks and advocacy organization to participate as co-hosts or supporting partners of our The Deal of the Century Roundtables to be held in Inaugural Edition in early Q4 in Washington DC.
We also updated the Online Summary of the Deal of the Centuri Initiative, a new August 6th, 43-page Executive Summary of the Strategic Memo.
Calls to Action
Apply as an individual participant of our Q4 DC roundtables.
Apply as a co-host, supporting partner or sponsor of our Q4 DC roundtables.
Introduce us to key US executive-branch AI policy powerbrokers — or relevant staff, advisors or introducers to them — or other fitting orgs for the DC roundtables
Join Us, participating in other ways
Donate, or introduce us to fitting donors
