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The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI

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arXiv:2608. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole.

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