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Defense Against the AI Dark Arts: Threat Assessment and Coalition Defense

The United States must now start working very hard with allies to secure democratic advantage in the domain of frontier AI

by Philip Zelikow, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, Eric Schmidt, and Jason Matheny
published by
Hoover Institution
 on December 4, 2024
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