Note: you can get a nice-to-read version of the Treaty on https://www.ifanyonebuildsit.com/treaty I’m not sure if there’s any notable differences between that and the paper but I’m guessing it’s mostly the same.
This paper represents an iteration over the version presented there. There are some key differences, and they include:
The governance approach has shifted away from the creation of a highly centralized international authority (which includes centralizing the verification efforts) to an international body which aids the coordination between states but leaves the verification heavy lift to the key members (i.e. US and China, perhaps others) and empowers their pre-existing intelligence gathering capacities.
It’s an agreement, not a treaty. This is mostly rhetorical. Maybe the next version will be called a deal.
Our paper includes more appendices which we think are quite valuable. In particular, we present a staged approach and the agreement is merely the end step (or penultimate step before capabilities progress resumes).
We introduced a whitelist to the restricted research approach; it spells out things which people are explicitly allowed to do and gets updated over time.
Note: you can get a nice-to-read version of the Treaty on https://www.ifanyonebuildsit.com/treaty I’m not sure if there’s any notable differences between that and the paper but I’m guessing it’s mostly the same.
This paper represents an iteration over the version presented there. There are some key differences, and they include:
The governance approach has shifted away from the creation of a highly centralized international authority (which includes centralizing the verification efforts) to an international body which aids the coordination between states but leaves the verification heavy lift to the key members (i.e. US and China, perhaps others) and empowers their pre-existing intelligence gathering capacities.
It’s an agreement, not a treaty. This is mostly rhetorical. Maybe the next version will be called a deal.
Our paper includes more appendices which we think are quite valuable. In particular, we present a staged approach and the agreement is merely the end step (or penultimate step before capabilities progress resumes).
We introduced a whitelist to the restricted research approach; it spells out things which people are explicitly allowed to do and gets updated over time.