International treaty for pausing the development of more powerful AI models

Reddit r/artificial / 4/9/2026

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Key Points

  • The article proposes pausing development of more powerful AI models through an international treaty overseen by the UN.
  • It suggests transferring control of the AI chip/GPU supply chain (e.g., ASML, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, TSMC) and major AI companies (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Qwen) to the UN.
  • The proposal includes compensating current shareholders with cash or special drawing rights and constraining GPU manufacturing output and data-center GPU concentration.
  • It calls for pausing key enabling hardware advances such as higher-resolution/precision photolithography machines at ASML.
  • It argues that resuming progress would require long, in-depth studies of social and economic impacts and any future major AI would be developed in secure, UN-supervised sandboxes before public release.

Personally, I think AI is interesting. But I recognize it might be dangerous, especially given the pace of development.

Here's my suggestion on how AI development could be paused through an international treaty:

\-Transfer ownership of the chip manufacturing supply chain to the UN. This would include companies such as ASML, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, TSMC, etc.

\-Transfer ownership of the biggest AI companies to the UN (OpenAI, Anthropic, Qwen, etc.)

\-Current stock holders would be given cash or special drawing rights in exchange for their positions.

\-The UN would use it's monopoly to limit GPU manufacturing to roughly 1 GPU per person every 5 years.

\-Pause the development of higher resolution/precision photolithography machines at ASML.

\-Limit the concentration of GPUs in data centers to a certain number of Pflop/s.

\-Un-pausing development would require in depth years long studies of the social and economic effects of current AI systems.

\-Any future major AI development would be done under the umbrella of UN oversight, and would be studied and run in a high security sandbox for a long time before being released to the public.

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