Policy-based deterrence for the 21st century.
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This brief, in-browser simulation game is meant to put you in the driver’s seat of the major parties involved and how they might actually respond to the incentives such a proposal would create.
Pay attention to your gut feelings and intuitions around risk and reward here. Ask yourself always: Does this make frontier AI development faster, or slower?