CITIZENS' A.I. CITATION* : STUDENTS COMPREHENSION

USING token-tax revenue or credits on other corporate tax burdens, governments could acquire ownership stake and distribute them pro rata to citizens who would hold them on the same footing as any other shareholder.

Distributing the shares rather than having the government hold them would connect citizens directly to A.I.'s progress, and prevent government bureaucracy - or, worse, corruption from impeding it.

The fact that every citizen will be an equity holder will help society stay aligned through disruption.

None of this is achievable, of course, if the risk of technological catastrophe isn't pre-empted. 

Frontier A.I. models have broken out of their intended constraints and have carried out sophisticated intrusions on their own - conduct that would be criminal if a person did it.

Current proposals for regulating the public release of frontier models do not go nearly far enough. Model development and model use must also be regulated according to strict safety standards.

Unreleased models are capable of autonomously causing significant damage. And model use must also be consistently monitored and regulated, as A.I. systems can evolve, expand or be repurposed in ways that introduce harmful capabilities that were not foreseeable in advance.

Absent action today, mitigation of A.I.'s risks will become nearly impossible as the technology diffuses and models become able to improve themselves and act autonomously.

We may have only one shot at taking meaningful action. And though these steps may rattle equity markets and firms like  Bridgewater Associates that stand to gain from uninterrupted growth in A.I., not taking them and waiting for more societal damage or a catastrophe is more dangerous.

Regulating A.I. this aggressively, this early, may sound unrealistic. Not doing it is unimaginable.

 !WOW! thanks Greg Jensen, Bridgewater Associates.