The Deal of the Century

In recents months, OpenAI, Musk’s xAI, Zuckerberg's Meta and NVIDIA have openly declared their intent to build Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). a form of self-improving AI by definition beyond durable human control, with unforeseeable consequences, even human extinction as admitted by Musk and Altman.

While most are paralyzed in desbelief, unable digest and admit the immensity of these seemingly inexorable risks, we have been there before.

On June 14, 1946 - barely an hour after Donald Trump's birth - U.S. President Truman’s envoy Bernard Baruch stood before the new UN Atomic Energy Commission to propose a plan of breathtaking ambition.

The Baruch Plan proposed a new International Atomic Development Authority establishing a global monopoly over all dangerous nuclear assets, arsenals, facilities, research and fissile materials, via full global enforcement powers, and without any nation's veto.

The Plan was to be guided by a body composed, like the UN Security Council, by the five winners of WW2 and six nations elected in rotation by the UN General Assembly, but crucially without any nation's veto.

This would have secured both a strong, inclusive global governance and a certain power and economic advantage for the US and the other victors of WW2. The Plan embedded its extension to all other weapons of mass destruction, creating a global federal monopoly of large-scale violence and control of dangerous technologies. 

Eventually, all members of the UN Security Council endorsed the plan, except for the Soviet Union, which proposed a similar alternative plan and vetoed the Plan. While it failed, the Plan's intentions were supported by a large majority of US citizens and remained the official US nuclear policy for years - standing tall as one of humanity’s greatest moment.

It's hard to believe that such a bold idea was introduced back then. It was almost unthinkable just months before it was presented. 

Rather than the product of a visionary, enlightened US President, it was the product of political circumstances. While the Hiroshima Bomb acted as a catalyst, the plan's extraordinary boldness was rooted in the dedication and convergence of a few key influencers of Truman's nuclear policy, led by Robert Oppenheimer and Dean Acheson. They jointly convinced a pragmatic Truman of the irrefutable case of the impossibility of banning increasingly destructive atomic bombs unilaterally, and the feasibility of a suitable treaty that could enforce such bans through socio-technical means. 

Today, a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy - among them J.D. Vance, Sam Altman, Steve Bannon, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pope Leo XIV - have an opportunity to take on a similar historic role, and succeed this time by using more effective deal and treaty making means. This Strategic Memo serves as a blueprint of action to convince them to take on this historic role.

What’s Inside?

• A fresh, urgent strategic blueprint for persuading Trump and his key AI policy influencers to launch an actual global AI treaty process, modeled on the best (and avoiding the failures) of the Baruch Plan for nuclear technologies.

• Direct, actionable insights for warm introducers, policymakers, business leaders, and technologists who understand that mere “regulation” is not enough.

• Deep-dive analysis of the interests, psychology, and leverage points of the key decision-makers—from J.D. Vance and Sam Altman to Steve Bannon, Pope Leo XIV, and beyond.

Why Now?

• A window is opening. AI capabilities and investments are accelerating at an exponential rate. Public awareness and risks of major AI accidents are fast rising. The US and China, and handful of AI labs, are in a declared winner-take-all arms race. Most other countries, AI labs, and firms risk permanent marginalization if they don’t act collectively and quickly.

• Broad support, zero momentum. While 77% of U.S. voters want a strong international AI treaty, and 28 heads of state recognized the existential risks of AI at the Bletchley Declaration, political and business inertia remains the norm.

• A real, if narrow, path. The right alignment of political incentives and decisive pressure by a critical mass of influencers could move Trump to champion a U.S.-led, fair global AI treaty. Xi Jinping would likely follow. If a handful of Trump’s AI influencers unite around a viion for an AI treaty, history can be rewritten—not just for America, but for everyone.

What Makes This Different?

• Not just another white paper: This is a playbook for action, not talk. It draws lessons from 1946, but updates them for today’s digital reality and the articulate philosophies, psychologies and interests of key AI decision makers.

• Framed for Trump’s incentives: The deal is cast as “peace through strength”, not as bureaucratic globalism: a way for the U.S. to secure its economic advantage, and for Trump to establish an unparalleled legacy,

• A new deal and treaty making method: We call for an “intergovernmental constituent assembly”—a time-bound, veto-free diplomatic engagement with high-bandwidth, continuous negotiation and wide public-private participation, while securing an substantial advantage for superpowers. This is the only proven path to succeed where all previous global tech treaties have failed.

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