[Week 6] “Case studies of arms control agreements (compilation)” by AGI Safety Fundamentals course coordinators

This is a compilation of historical case studies that may help inform our intuitions about the future politics of AI (e.g. How will governments be involved in shaping the trajectory of AI? What forms of international coordination on AI are plausible, and under what conditions is each especially likely?)

Original text:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5g-xPzBf9ZWgpdqX8nzlcq1hf25yZG46PZLcLRJeQ0/edit#heading=h.c30nyn5vshfg

• “International Control of Powerful Technology: Lessons from the Baruch Plan for Nuclear Weapons” (Zaidi and Dafoe, 2021)
• “The Pope and the Crossbow: The Mixed History of Arms Control,” from Army of None (Scharre, 2018)
• Who will govern artificial intelligence? Learning from the history of strategic politics in emerging technologies (Leung, 2019)
• Engines of Power: Electricity, AI, and General-Purpose Military Transformations (Ding and Dafoe, 2021)
• “Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols” (Sunstein, 2007)

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