Making Extreme AI Risk Tradeable

Traditional insurance can’t handle the extreme risks of frontier AI. Catastrophe bonds can cover the gap and compel labs to adopt tougher safety standards.

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Making Extreme AI Risk Tradeable

Traditional insurance can’t handle the extreme risks of frontier AI. Catastrophe bonds can cover the gap and compel labs to adopt tougher safety standards.

Exporting Advanced Chips Is Good for Nvidia, Not the US

The White House is betting that hardware sales will buy software loyalty — a strategy borrowed from 5G that misunderstands how AI actually works.

Dec 15, 2025

AI Could Undermine Emerging Economies

AI automation threatens to erode the “development ladder,” a foundational economic pathway that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.

Dec 11, 2025

The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today

A growing body of evidence means it’s no longer tenable to dismiss the possibility that frontier AIs are conscious.

Dec 8, 2025

AI Alignment Cannot Be Top-Down

Community Notes offers a better model — where citizens, not corporations, decide what “aligned” means.

Nov 3, 2025

AGI's Last Bottlenecks

A new framework suggests we’re already halfway to AGI. The rest of the way will mostly require business-as-usual research and engineering.

AI Will Be Your Personal Political Proxy

By learning our views and engaging on our behalf, AI could make government more representative and responsive — but not if we allow it to erode our democratic instincts.

Is China Serious About AI Safety?

China’s new AI safety body brings together leading experts — but faces obstacles to turning ambition into influence.

AI Deterrence Is Our Best Option

A response to critiques of Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM).

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