When you believe your sci fi scenario so deeply that you argue for a global surveillance state.
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute calls for restricting AI research itself. It lays out a research-control regime for monitoring researchers and organizations, including penalties that "could plausibly include prison sentences."
This new paper catalogs 28 mechanisms, including intelligence gathering, international search warrants and inspections (of properties, computers, and files), polygraphs; inference-content monitoring (of user prompts, tool use, model outputs), sting operations, AI-assisted code review (which may extend to codebases, experiment logs, and research documents), embedded auditors, employee-monitoring software, chip-use monitoring, training-data review, and model allowlists.
