Thank you for posting this review. It sounds like a book worth reading. But it would have been nice if you had drawn out some parallels or lessons that might be applied from the IAEA's history to the current debates around an international governance body for AI. Perhaps you plan to do this in a subsequent post? Should any such governance body also have a dual mandate, for instance? (It might make it more palatable to the AI have-nots, for example, but then again it might pose similar proliferation risks.) What does the book say about the establishment of a talent pool necessary to staff such a body? And what does it say about the risks of having a governance body but one that is relatively ineffectual in the face of determined state efforts at proliferation and capability advancement? It would be great to try to apply the book's lessons and analogies, rather than simply summarize the book's content.
Thank you for posting this review. It sounds like a book worth reading. But it would have been nice if you had drawn out some parallels or lessons that might be applied from the IAEA's history to the current debates around an international governance body for AI. Perhaps you plan to do this in a subsequent post? Should any such governance body also have a dual mandate, for instance? (It might make it more palatable to the AI have-nots, for example, but then again it might pose similar proliferation risks.) What does the book say about the establishment of a talent pool necessary to staff such a body? And what does it say about the risks of having a governance body but one that is relatively ineffectual in the face of determined state efforts at proliferation and capability advancement? It would be great to try to apply the book's lessons and analogies, rather than simply summarize the book's content.
Thanks! This is very much just a short book review, but I have written about this elsewhere:
https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/an-iaea-for-ai-the-early-history
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-023-00670-4
Thanks. Will check that out!