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Should There Be an International AGI Project? (with Rose Hadshar)

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Show Notes

Rose Hadshar is a researcher at Forethought. She discusses:

Why governments might pursue an international AGI government

The chance that the first AGI developer becomes a de facto world government

The "Intelsat model" – treating AGI as commercial infrastructure rather than a weapon or science project

Membership and voting structures that might make a US-led coalition viable

The "AGI convention" proposal

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