Some of the smartest thinkers and forecasters in AI published a plan to save the world from AI, and I think they know no one will do anything with it. On July 9, 2026, the AI 2027 team published Plan A, a framework for a US-China deal to slow AI progress by 2029. At first, it seems strange - people who believe in the upside of AI, who are very thoughtful and rational, proposing something that clearly no one will act on. Heck, they even predict no one will act on it - they call it a recommendation, not a prediction, and forecasters give the US-China deal it opens with about a 4% chance.

But that may have been the point.