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AI-generated walkthrough with synthesised voices: a host explains the paper and a discussant questions it. It covers claims, methods, key assumptions, citations and use so far, decision relevance, and what an evaluator should check. Every direct quotation was checked word for word against its source. Public sources only. Not an Unjournal evaluation or decision. Each paper's page has the full transcript, key equations and sources.

Working shortlist

The AGI Race and Existential Risk

Bueno de Mesquita, Dziuda & Polborn · about 21 min

Cooperating against Catastrophe

Fudenberg & Koh · about 21 min

Overcoming Judgment-Proofness: The Law & Economics of Insuring and Mitigating AI Risk

Gabriel Weil · about 22 min

When Does Regulation by Insurance Work? The Case of Frontier AI

Cristian Trout · about 22 min

Governing Artificial Intelligence: Public Preferences and Regulatory Options

Lundgren & Tallberg · about 22 min

Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI

Karger, Kuusela, Abaluck, Bryan, Halperin … Tetlock (FRI team) · about 23 min

Diversion and resale: estimating compute smuggling to China

Isabel Juniewicz · about 21 min

Getting attention now

Delays to Frontier AI in the EU and UK

Lidiard, Vereschak, Gibbs & Anderljung · about 21 min

Why Is AI So Contentious?

Beraja & Yuchtman · about 21 min

The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement

Cunningham, Althoff, Halperin, Jabarian, Koh, Ramani, Trammell, Whitfill & Wu · about 21 min

Buying Time Against AI Proliferation: The Economics of Governed Access

Tobias Sytsma · about 22 min

What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?

Chan, Winter, Barto … Manning, Mindermann (22 authors including Hinton, Bengio, Korinek; corresponding authors at GovAI and Cambridge's CASP) · about 22 min

Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI

Korinek, Jones, Sacher, Cotter & McCrory · about 21 min

Alternates

Mapping General-Purpose AI Governance in Twenty AI Middle-Power Jurisdictions

Schwab, Naidoo, Barazzutti, Lee & Machado (Arcadia Impact; The Future Society) · about 2 min

Evaluating AI Providers' Frontier Safety Frameworks

Stelling, Murray et al. (SaferAI) · about 22 min

Found on the dashboard

How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents

Arbel, Salib & Goldstein · about 22 min

Acting with AI: An Interaction-Based Framework for Agentic Tort Liability

Yiheng Yao · about 21 min

How to Catch a GPU: A Taxonomy of Verification and Enforcement Mechanisms for International AI Agreements

Koopmanschap & Barten · about 2 min