A key bottleneck for effective AI governance

TL;DRThe key bottleneck for effective AI governance is not political will, nor translation from technical findings to policymakers.To enable technically grounded legislation with existing will from policymakers, we need mechanisms for policymakers to direct policy-enabling technical research. Policy-directed research was crucial for enabling nuclear arms control treaties.A proposed mechanism for an org to address this in AI safety would look something like: Listen to policymakers and what they w...