Connor's Scratch Pad
Connor WilliamsBook reviews, and anything else I may feel like writing about. History, human civilization, nature, economics, and more.
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Rogue AI developers: hostis humani generis?
This is the third and final article in a series about technical governance - designing systems, informed by knowledge both in policy and in technical aspects AI, which ensure advanced AI can be robustly controlled and bans can be enforced....
Are airplane cockpits too secure?
On September 30, in the cockpit of Flydubai flight 1073, as the plane approached the end of its scheduled voyage from Dubai to Tel Aviv, co-pilot Hammam al-Hammami attacked and severely wounded captain Smit Machchhar with the emergency axe...
Towards a new humanism in a sci-fi age: against the Effective Altruist approach to addressing AI danger
The 2020s are an era of science fiction becoming reality. An unreleased AI model used millions of dollars worth of compute to solve one of the leading open mathematical problems. Rogue AI “agent swarms” roam the internet, hacking into websi...
Carceral AI safety
To avert catastrophe, an international AI treaty is necessary. This treaty will, at minimum, need to ban the creation of artificial superintelligence, prohibit precursors beyond some threshold, and establish verification and enforcement mec...
AI breakout time: a mechanism for an enforceable AI pause
To pause frontier AI development, you need to define the AI capabilities threshold that must not be passed. There are a number of ways to do so. You could freeze development at the currently-existing frontier, whether freezing each company...
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When I created this blog at the start of 2026, I was hoping to write about book reviews, history, philosophy, and various other things that interest me. Due to the urgency of the situation, I've found myself mostly writing about AI instead for now.
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