Jason Ross Arnold is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, with an affiliated faculty appointment in the Computer Science Department. He is the author of Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of US Open Government Laws (2014), Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks, from Snowden to Samizdat (2019), and Uncertain Threats: The FBI, the New Left, and Cold War Intelligence (forthcoming in 2025).
Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) hinges on nations observing one another's progress toward superintelligence — but reliable observation is harder than MAIM's authors acknowledge.