[Linkpost] “Open Global Investment as a Governance Model for AGI” by Nick Bostrom

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This is a link post. I've seen many prescriptive contributions to AGI governance take the form of proposals for some radically new structure. Some call for a Manhattan project, others for the creation of a new international organization, etc. The OGI model, instead, is basically the status quo. More precisely, it is a model to which the status quo is an imperfect and partial approximation.
It seems to me that this model has a bunch of attractive properties. That said, I'm not putting it forward because I have a very high level of conviction in it, but because it seems useful to have it explicitly developed as an option so that it can be compared with other options.
(This is a working paper, so I may try to improve it in light of comments and suggestions.)
ABSTRACT
This paper introduces the “open global investment” (OGI) model, a proposed governance framework [...]
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First published:
July 10th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LtT24cCAazQp4NYc5/open-global-investment-as-a-governance-model-for-agi
Linkpost URL:
https://nickbostrom.com/ogimodel.pdf
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