Mauricio Baker

If just a few lab staff took on verification work full-time, verifying a US-China pacing deal could get much more feasible within months.

Here are 8 specific things lab staff could start on today to help make international verification possible: 🧵

What will whistleblowers at AI companies face, and what would help them? A new paper I advised studied 30 cases of notable whistleblowers across industries:🧵
- Whistleblowers were most deterred by fearing: loss of social status, retaliation, and that tips wouldn't be acted on.

"For well over a decade, a secure facility jointly operated by Huawei and British intelligence services has given the UK government unparalleled access to Huawei source code and telecom hardware for cyber security testing." Neat case study on tech verification by @ThomasVanDamme4

Say the US wants a deal with China on powerful AI. Could we verify that China doesn’t cheat?

For the last year, my team produced the most technically detailed overview so far. Our RAND working paper finds: strong verification is possible—but we need ML and hardware research.
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