Plan A seems like a good plan for handling powerful AI, or at least the best plan anyone's written up.
Many choices initially seem crazy, but are actually pretty carefully considered.
Plan A isn't likely to happen, but pushing for something like this seems worthwhile.…
A nice property of Plan A is that it's reasonably robust to partial or lower-quality implementation.
So nearby proposals still seem good (and worse-done versions can bootstrap into better ones).
The core—verification and (very strong) transparency—suffices to go pretty far.
Excited to finally publish AI 2040: Plan A, our plan for international coordination to get to a great AI future. We've put a lot of work into this and I hope that it sparks alternative plans that bring us closer to treating superintelligence with the seriousness it deserves.…