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The Compute Conundrum: AI Governance in a Shifting Geopolitical Era

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a futuristic concept to a transformative force reshaping industries, economies, and societies worldwide. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, ensuring that they act in ways aligned with human values—known as AI alignment—has emerged as a critical challenge. Misaligned AI can lead to...

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The Compute Conundrum: AI Governance in a Shifting Geopolitical Era

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a futuristic concept to a transformative force reshaping industries, economies, and societies worldwide. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, ensuring that they act in ways aligned with human values—known as AI alignment—has emerged as a critical challenge. Misaligned AI can lead to unintended consequences, ranging from biased decision-making to severe societal disruptions^[1]. The LessWrong community has extensively discussed the importance of AI alignment, emphasizing concepts like the orthogonality thesis and instrumental convergence, which suggest that an AI's level of intelligence does not determine its goals, and that AIs might pursue convergent instrumental goals that are misaligned with human values unless carefully designed^[2]^[3].

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