AI Safety Connect operates on the following assumptions about transformative AI systems:

• Imminent possibility: Decision-makers ought to take seriously the considerable uncertainty around AI development, and the fact that transformative systems may be created within months rather than decades. As such, it is worth grappling with how people who are presently in office can help tilt the balance away from racing dynamics where innovators excacerbate high-level risks to human well-being and agency, and towards responsible and coordinated approaches for safe and beneficial AI.

• Global impacts: It is highly beneficial to forge connections between decision makers across east-west and north-south perspectives, and to facilitate exchanges across silos (such as the policy sphere, industry, academia, investors, and civil society).

• Updating the social contract: Transformative AI systems can create new insights and fundamentally change how we think about the economy, the planet, and human agency. Policymakers and the public need to be informed on and be able to impact the trajectory of AI development.

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