AGI Strategies

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Hardware killswitch.

On-chip verification and remote off-switches for frontier compute

People on the record.

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Yonadav Shavit

OpenAI researcher; on-chip compute verification

endorses

Argues hardware-level verification is technically feasible and is the missing enforcement layer for compute governance.

Hardware-based mechanisms can verify where, when, and how frontier compute is used, making compute governance enforceable.
§ paperWhat does it take to catch a Chinchilla? Verifying Rules on Large-Scale Neural Network Training via Compute Monitoring· arXiv· 2023-04-14· faithful paraphrase