Cooperation substrate ↑ · institutional

Coordination infrastructure

Coordination failure is upstream of most grand challenges; AI can be the substrate that dissolves race dynamics and treaty violations if pointed at coordination.

Mechanism

Build AI-driven verification, commitment mechanisms, translation among adversaries, and machine-speed dispute resolution.

Addresses 1 failure scenario

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Accumulative erosion

Coordinates

Primary leverCooperation substrate (AI-inclusive)

Acts oninstitutional

Coercionconsent

Actor in controlhumans

Time horizonpre transition

Legitimacy sourcetechnical

Conflicts, grouped by mechanism

No strict conflicts catalogued. This strategy pulls a lever that nothing else pulls in the opposite direction.

Complements, grouped by mechanism

Same phase, different layer

same stage, distinct levers

Both are active in the same phase of the transition but act on different layers (model vs institution vs culture). They cover different failure modes inside the same window.

Differential technology developmentArms control treatyGovernance first

Same-lever reinforce

same lever, same pull, different mechanism

Both strategies pull the same lever in the same direction by different means. They stack: doing both amplifies the pull, at the cost of double-counting in portfolio audits.

Cooperative AIMutual dependency

Same-lever twins

Both use the same lever in the same direction. Usually redundant inside a portfolio: each dollar or effort unit only buys one lever pull, even if two strategies are named.

AI welfare as safetytwin

Axis position

What the strategy acts onInstitutional

Coercion levelConsent

Actor in controlHumans as principals

Time horizonPre-transition

Legitimacy sourceTechnical

Source note: Coordination infrastructure as strategy.md