Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
RAND recommends the US adopt a 'Freedom of Action' strategy to preserve all options on the path to superintelligence.
“to build and preserve the ability to secure U.S. geopolitical advantage and ensure humanity's survival with agency through the transition to Superintelligence”— Jack Clark
RAND published a major strategy paper arguing that because the trajectory of AI takeoff is deeply uncertain, the US should pursue a 'Freedom of Action' strategy built on four pillars and seven archetypal options ranging from dominance to co-development to survivalist continuity. It matters because it frames superintelligence as a national-security priority and lays out concrete policy pathways being seriously discussed by influential think tanks and, via Jack Clark's Import AI, the frontier AI community.