Lay a (pause) agreement on the table and take it apart — what each clause does and why it’s there.
Tag each clause with the organs it implements. Commit to see the instructor layer. Prototype — content pending expert review.
Warm-up: the 2023 FLI Open Letter (operative excerpts)
Published March 22, 2023, signed by more than 30,000 people. Read each excerpt and tag the organs you find. Be strict. A demand for an organ is not the organ.
“…we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”
“This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors.”
“If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.”
“AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols… rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts.”
“These [governance systems] should at a minimum include… oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability…”
XLab Tracks · Verification Track prototype. Instructor annotations are teaching interpretations. The Reykjavik Protocol is a fictional agreement written for this exercise; its flaws are planted deliberately, each modeled on a documented feature of a real regime.