Plus, Measuring AI Honesty.

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. In this newsletter, we discuss two recent papers: a policy paper on national security strategy, and a technical paper on measuring honesty in AI systems.

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Superintelligence Strategy

CAIS director Dan Hendrycks, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang have authored a new paper, Superintelligence Strategy. The paper (and an in-depth expert version) argues that the development of superintelligence—AI systems that surpass humans in nearly every domain—is inescapably a matter of national security.

In this story, we introduce the paper's three-pronged strategy for national security in the age of advanced AI: deterrence, nonproliferation, and competitiveness.

Deterrence

The simultaneous power and danger of superintelligence presents [...]

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Outline:

(00:20) Superintelligence Strategy

(01:09) Deterrence

(02:41) Nonproliferation

(04:04) Competitiveness

(05:33) Measuring AI Honesty

(09:24) Links

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First published:
March 6th, 2025

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-49-superintelligence

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