Peter Denton

AI systems are becoming increasingly capable of pursuing sophisticated goals without human intervention. As these systems begin to be used to make economic transactions, they raise important questions for central banks, given their role overseeing money, payments, and financial stability. Leading AI researchers have highlighted the importance of retaining governance control over such systems. In response, AI safety researchers have proposed developing infrastructure to govern AI agents. This blog explores how financial infrastructure may emerge as a particularly viable governance tool, offering pragmatic, scalable, and reversible chokepoints for monitoring and controlling increasingly autonomous AI systems.

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