Yes, absolutely. In the context I was talking about earlier in terms of how this is a coordination problem, separating the applications and the current things of AI from where things are going.... I can get into that if people are interested in why those risks might present and some of the history around that. I think we need to build a world where we have the ability to make agreements to stop pushing the frontier of AI development and to verify and enforce those agreements. We're not there yet. We certainly don't have the political will to do anything like that, but we need to be able to build in the capability to have the option to do so.
Branding is hard. Building an off-switch doesn't mean it would shut down all AI development. It's having the technical, institutional and legal capability, should there be the political will, to impose fairly strenuous restrictions on AI development, deployment and diffusion in pushing the frontier of these very powerful general systems going toward superintelligence. Being able to build that capability is essential.
We've done the work that you read. We recently released some work trying to sketch out what a model international agreement would look like that could prevent the creation of this technology until we can create it safely. We started to enumerate the things that would need to be in place and that make up the components of what we call this off-switch, to be able to enforce and verify it.
