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By international agreement, obviously. There are tons of international agreements to regulate all sorts of things. It's generally a pretty good way to prevent a race to the bottom. Or in this case, a potential race to the end of the world.

to the end of the world

Or, if things go well, ending a long very bad chapter.

Why would China - or worse, Russia - sign any treaty with the US that'd make them worse off if they actually follow through?

The biggest problem is that the US has shown not trustable when it comes to treaty. You can have a treaty with the US but the US can just use Israel or some other proxy to do the advance research and development for them..

How would it make them worse off? If everybody agrees that AI is a threat to humanity, but also a possible edge over rivals, then the threat should be enough reason to get everybody to agree.

There are international agreements on tons of things that work the same way.

If everybody agree[d] that AI is a threat to humanity

Which would be either very difficult or very ironical, given that realizing that humanity is a threat to humanity precedes that.

Why would they trust the US to honour anything they sign? Look how Trump has ignored the trade deal he signed with Canada.

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