SMRTR AIAug 17, 2026TIME Magazine

The People Building a Way to Slow Down the AI Race

The People Building a Way to Slow Down the AI Race

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A small team of engineers in Sheffield is building tools to verify what AI data centers are actually doing, hoping to make an international AI slowdown treaty possible someday. With fewer than 50 people worldwide working on this, the effort is vastly outgunned by trillion-dollar AI development, and faces major political hurdles, as neither the U.S. nor China currently supports global AI governance.

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