Scope ↓ · ai artefact

Rate limited AI

Most AI caused catastrophe requires speed; slow AI, even if arbitrarily capable, is supervisable and rate limits are easier to enforce than capability limits.

Mechanism

Cap action throughput of AI systems via fixed rate quotas or external approval gates for high-consequence actions.

Addresses 1 failure scenario

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Correlated agent incident

Coordinates

Primary leverScope (Permit)

Acts onai artefact

Coercionstate coercion

Actor in controlhumans

Time horizonhorizon neutral

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

Shared authority

same legitimacy source

Different levers, same legitimacy source (democratic, state, technical, market). The pair hangs together under one kind of authority; it stands or falls with that authority.

Mutual dependencyDecouple reasoning from action

Same-side diversification

same side, different lever

Both act on the same side (AI or world) but pull distinct levers. They cover several failure modes on that side while leaving the other side uncovered.

AI containment

Cross-side bridge

one AI-side, one world-side

One acts on the model, the other on institutions or culture. The bridge hedges against both artefact-level and substrate-level failure.

Governance first

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.

Abandon superintelligencetwinCapability ceilingtwinEmbodiment requirementtwinNarrow AI preservationtwinRed line capabilitytwinSmall model firsttwin

Axis position

What the strategy acts onAI artefact

Coercion levelState coercion

Actor in controlHumans as principals

Time horizonHorizon-neutral

Legitimacy sourceTechnical

Source note: Rate limited AI strategy.md