· Emergency Preparedness Agreements and Institutions
States should agree on technical and institutional measures required to prepare for advanced AI systems, regardless of their development timescale. To facilitate these agreements, we need an international body to bring together AI safety authorities, fostering dialogue and collaboration in the development and auditing of AI safety regulations across different jurisdictions. This body would ensure states adopt and implement a minimal set of effective safety preparedness measures, including model registration, disclosure, and tripwires.
Over time, this body could also set standards for and commit to using verification methods to enforce domestic implementations of the Safety Assurance Framework. These methods can be mutually enforced through incentives and penalty mechanisms, such as conditioning access to markets on compliance with global standards. Experts and safety authorities should establish incident reporting and contingency plans, and regularly update the list of verified practices to reflect current scientific understanding. This body will be a critical initial coordination mechanism. In the long run, however, states will need to go further to ensure truly global governance of risks from advanced AI.
Published by IDAIS (International Dialogues on AI Safety) in IDAIS-Venice, Sept 5, 2024