Strategic Memo of
the Deal of the Century
Published on September 24th, 2025, the Strategic Memo of The Deal of the Century aims to support the Coalition’s The Deal of the Century flagship initiative - and its outreach and upcoming US Persuasion Tour - to persuade a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump’s AI policy to champion a bold and timely US-China-led global AI treaty.
Targeted influencers include JD Vance, Steve Bannon, Sam Altman, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, Pope Leo XIV, Dario Amodei, Google leaders, David Sacks, and, to a lesser extent, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Developed over six months - when we reviewed nearly every relevant statement by key potential influencers of Trump’s AI policy - it comprises a deep analysis of such influencers’ interests and philosophies, convergence scenarios among them, and highly targeted outreach pitches of each, and for introducers to them.
Developed over 6 months, with over 20 exceptional multidisciplinary experts, the 17-page Strategic Memo is buttressed by over 100 pages of Appendixes and Annexes, and preceded by a 3-page Executive Overview (pasted below):
Executive Overview
[as published in the Strategic Memo on September 24th, 2025]
TO: Key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy and prospective introducers to them
FROM: The Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI
DATE: September 24, 2025
SUBJECT: The Deal of the Century: A Strategy to Secure American AI Leadership and Avert Global Catastrophe
The Bottom Line: A narrow window exists - measured in months, not years - for President Trump to secure the most consequential diplomatic achievement in history: a US-led global AI treaty that locks in American leadership while preventing an AI-driven catastrophe that threatens all nations equally.
The Stakes: Leading AI labs including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and NVIDIA have openly declared their race toward Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) - systems that self-improve beyond human control. Their own leaders assign 10-20% probability to human extinction. China is closing the AI capability gap faster than anticipated. Without immediate action, there are major risks that China may achieve AI-driven economic dominance, and impose its values globally, or an uncontrolled race to ASI will trigger an uncontrollable intelligence explosion, leading to human disempowerment or extinction.
The Political Moment: Three converging factors create unprecedented leverage:
77% of US voters support a strong AI treaty and 78% of US Republican voters fear AI could eventually threaten the very existence of the human race.
Trump needs a major win as his approval ratings face pressure from economic headwinds
Xi Jinping has repeatedly called for AI governance but awaits US leadership to avoid appearing weak
The October 31st Trump-Xi meeting, and its planned follow up in Beijing, represents a once-in-history inflection point. Miss this window, and the ASI race could become irreversible.
The Influence Architecture
Key Finding: Our six-month analysis of power dynamics reveals that 3-4 key aligned voices, among key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy can decisively shift his position on AI - leveraging an opening political window. These are not only formal AI policy advisors, but influential voices, trusted allies, AI industry leaders and national security experts, that command Trump's ear and respect.
Primary Targets. (in order of influence potential):
JD Vance: Controls access, shares Trump's nationalist instincts, recently deferred to Pope on AI ethics
Steve Bannon: Translates to MAGA base, already warns of AI "apocalypse," seeks to crush techno-feudalism
Sam Altman: Commands technical credibility, previously advocated democratic AI governance, needs exit from mad race
Pope Leo XIV: Provides moral authority that transcends politics, has Vance's ear on AI civilizational questions
Marco Rubio: Fills the key formal role for a treaty, mentioned by Trump as likely US presidential nominee in 2028.
Force Multipliers:
Joe Rogan & Tucker Carlson (reach 50M+ Americans, both publicly fear AI catastrophe)
Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence, staunch advocate against nuclear risk)
David Sacks (Trump's AI Czar, can secure Silicon Valley buy-in if treaty economics work)
The Persuasion and Convergence Play: Despite surface differences, most of these influencers share core concerns about concentrated power, human dignity, and preventing Chinese dominance, technocratic dystopia and human extinction. Our deep analysis of each demonstrates how a properly structured treaty pitch for Trump can address each influencer's values and AI visions, while advancing their interests.
The Deal Making Architecture
Not Another Failed Treaty: This isn't the UN approach that produced toothless climate accords, or weak and limited nuclear treaties. We propose revolutionary treaty mechanics that match the speed and stakes of the AI challenge:
Phase 1: Ultra-High-Bandwidth Bilateral Negotiation
(Oct 2025 - March 2026)
Hundreds of negotiators, deep governmental experts and two Special Envoys working 3 weeks per month in secure facilities in Singapore - and just as many others in DC and Beijing
Mutually-trusted IT infrastructure to support ultra-confidential and off-the-record communications among presidents and teams to turbocharge dealmaking - via trust building, social bonding and continuous multi-level channels.
Result: Emergency US-China accord to mitigate the most severe AI risks
Phase 2: Realist Global Constitutional Convention on AI
(February - September 2026)
Time-bound convention (2-3 months maximum), veto-free process
Weighted voting reflecting actual power: US + China = 30%, but never majority
Modeled on 1787 Philadelphia Convention that created American federalism
Singapore as neutral venue with 2,000+ delegates working full-time
The Enforcement Revolution: Unlike nuclear treaties, that failed to prevent major powers proliferation, new mutually-trusted, defense-grade, open and battle-tested enforcement systems leverage existing surveillance infrastructure under new democratic accountability:
Repurposes current intelligence capabilities into transparent, federated oversight
Mutually-trusted supply chain and life-cycle oversights prevent secret ASI development
Cryptographically-enforce multi-jurisdiction consensus required for enforcement actions
American-led but not American-controlled - ensuring both effectiveness and legitimacy
Why Trump Can Be Persuaded
The Pitch That Works: Frame this as "The Deal of the Century" - not globalism, but strategic leadership through guidance of global rule-setting:
America Shapes the Rules: As the current AI leader, and leading the pack, the US gets to set terms favorable to its interests
Lock-in Economic Advantage: Treaty locks in a substantial share of the economic upsides for the US, its citizens and its leading AI firms
Legacy Beyond Comparison: Trump becomes the president who saved humanity while Reagan merely ended the Cold War
Neutralizes China Threat: Prevents Beijing from achieving AI-driven economic and export dominance through bilateral containment
Onshoring and Jobs: Treaty compatible with onshoreing AI and chips development, massive US economic development and job creation
Historical Precedent: The extraordinarily bold Baruch Plan, for global nuclear control, was proposed by President Truman on June 14, 1946 - literally hours after Trump's birth. Trump can succeed where Truman failed, completing a destiny that began with his first breath.
The Implementation Roadmap
Next 30 Days: Persuade 2-3 key influencers to start coordinating for a joint pitch to Trump before Oct 31st meeting with Xi - through tailored pitches delivered through fitting introducers -
October 31: Trump-Xi summit produces a joint declaration of intent and process for a global AI treaty - vague publicly, specific privately
November-December: Establish high-bandwidth negotiation infrastructure and process, while maintaining strategic ambiguity and political safeguards
January 2026: Public announcement of an emerging US-China emergency AI accord
February-March 2026: Recruit other world powers through irresistible carrots (AI access and early joining bonuses) and sticks (exclusion)
June-September 2026: A global constitutional convention on AI is convened with the participation of at least 80% of the dozen most powerful nations. Other nations can join in progress.
Seizing the Moment
This Strategic Memo provides the blueprint. The 17-page Memo and its 100-page of Appendixes and Annex contain:
Deep profiling of interests, philosophy and AI predictions for each influencer
Specifications for a high-bandwidth treaty making infrastructure and process
Detailed enforcement mechanisms preventing both ASI and authoritarianism
Tailored pitches for influencers
Time is the enemy. Every week of delay exponentially increases the probability of irreversible ASI development. The companies racing toward ASI measure progress in days. So must we.
The choice is binary: Act now to secure American-led global AI governance, or watch helplessly as either China or ungovernable AI systems determine humanity's future.
History will remember the Winter of 2025 as either the month humanity seized control of its destiny, or the month we surrendered it forever.
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