Governance and Ethical Frameworks for AI Agents

Superintelligence is destabilizing since it threatens other states’ survival—it could be weaponized, or states may lose control of it. Attempts to build superintelligence may face threats by rival states—creating a deterrence regime called Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM). In this paper, Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt, and Alexandr Wang detail a strategy—focused on deterrence, nonproliferation, and competitiveness—for nations to navigate the risks of superintelligence.