To slow or pause powerful AI development we need regimes for sharing information transparently from companies, plus tools for verifying that shared information and firms' slowdown actions are legitimate, paralleling nuclear arms control.

If we hope to slow or pause AI development, we need transparent information-sharing regimes from companies and verification tools, in parallel with how nuclear arms control historically worked. ✦ AI generated

Jack Clark · Import AI · 2026-08-10 · original ↗

If we have any hope of being able to slow or pause the development of powerful intelligence systems then, as this paper lays out, we're going to need regimes for sharing information transparently from companies about the state of their AI development, as well as tools for verifying that the information being shared from firms as well as their actions with regard to slowdown are legitimate and reliable. In this, there are many parallels with how arms control has historically worked in the context of nuclear weapons.

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