  This paper proposes a Multinational Artificial General Intelligence
Consortium (MAGIC) to mitigate existential risks from advanced artificial
intelligence (AI). MAGIC would be the only institution in the world permitted
to develop advanced AI, enforced through a global moratorium by its signatory
members on all other advanced AI development. MAGIC would be exclusive,
safety-focused, highly secure, and collectively supported by member states,
with benefits distributed equitably among signatories. MAGIC would allow narrow
AI models to flourish while significantly reducing the possibility of
misaligned, rogue, breakout, or runaway outcomes of general-purpose systems. We
do not address the political feasibility of implementing a moratorium or
address the specific legislative strategies and rules needed to enforce a ban
on high-capacity AGI training runs. Instead, we propose one positive vision of
the future, where MAGIC, as a global governance regime, can lay the groundwork
for long-term, safe regulation of advanced AI.
