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Plan R: AI Safety by ASICs.

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A LessWrong post argues that civilization-scale AI risk in 2026 stems from frontier AI companies being structured to create very powerful or self-replicating entities, and proposes "Plan R: AI Safety by ASICs."

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“Much of the civilization-scale risk we are seeing in AI in 2026 comes from the following combination: we created a single institution (the "Frontier AI Company") that has two properties: A.”
LessWrong, 25 Sept 2026, 23:26.

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