15-year-old Wes Friesen presents draft AI treaty to Council
Wes Friesen, a 15-year-old founder of Project Flourishing, describes drafting a comprehensive AI treaty for companies to sign by November 1, available at aitreaty.base44.app. He proposes shifting the Nash equilibrium by having New York City broker a joint agreement among AI companies to stop safely.
Hello, I am Wes Friesen.
I'm the founder of Project Flourishing, a policy research organization that works with Congress to solve the world's biggest problems, namely the catastrophic risk from AI.
I've been working on this for the past three years, and I'm 15.
I, in preparation for this, have spent the past few weeks staying up each night to build a comprehensive contract between these AI companies to jointly and bindingly agree to let
third-party auditors shut down any AI model that might have some chance of causing a catastrophe.
I put a lot of depth into it.
One of the provisions, two of the provisions is dedicated to the democratization of AI, making sure everyone in the world has a voice in it, especially including governments.
That contract is available here, or if you go to aitreaty.base44.app, you can download it, or if you want, I could email it to you guys later.
My hope is that you guys send it to these AI companies and everyone here who's testified to then send it to these AI companies for them to consider signing it by November 1st.
It has a lot of things on like
specifically why this contract would work when others haven't.
And another thing that we can do, another concrete thing that we can do as New York City to stop the catastrophic risk from AI is shift the Nash equilibrium.
Right now, all the AI companies think that they're in a race, and if they slow down, none of the others will slow down.
What we can do is say all the AI companies are slowing down.
If one of them speeds up, then they all speed up.
We could say to the AI companies in a joint letter from New York City, all of you voluntarily agree to have a team of experts shut down all your AI models.
If one of you stops, then all of you will stop.
This is something we could send them, and it would solve the problem unilaterally.
So that's something we should send them.
If you have any policy questions,
Thank you so much, and thank you for taking the time to work on that.
If you could leave a copy with a sergeant at arms, we'll accept that here today.
You may continue.