Constraining the capacity of physical side channels for AI verification and security

Based on recent events, including Dario Amodei's essay on pacing the frontier and the subsequent response, a coordinated slowdown in AI capability developments is now in the Overton Window (however it may go down in Washington longer-term). An important aspect of such an effort is the verification of such coordinated measures, which is as yet an unsolved problem in many areas. Borrowing language from arms control and nuclear safeguards, verification involves confirming that claims by a frontier ...