Samuel Marks on Frontier AI Safety and Governance

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Disputes over the development, testing, oversight, pacing, and governance of highly capable AI systems and their potential catastrophic risks.

Scope: Includes attributable disputes about whether frontier developers’ safeguards, deployment decisions, and proposed coordination mechanisms are sufficient. It does not treat speculative future outcomes as established facts.

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