Yudkowsky's TIME piece did not suggest nuclear strikes against countries refusing to sign a global agreement against large AI training runs.

Judge on the text of Yudkowsky's March 2023 TIME op-ed ('Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down'). True: the article does not call for nuclear strikes against countries that merely refuse to sign the agreement. For example, it calls instead for destroying rogue datacenters by airstrike and for accepting a risk of nuclear exchange in order to prevent large training runs, without proposing a nuclear first strike against non-signatories. Mostly true: the article does not literally suggest such strikes, but its wording (e.g. being willing to risk nuclear exchange) makes that reading reasonably available. Mixed: the text is ambiguous enough that careful readers are evenly split. Mostly false: the text comes close to proposing nuclear force against non-signatories. False: the article explicitly suggests nuclear strikes against countries that refuse to sign.

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1. E1 The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough TIME · 29 March 2023

   “Make it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs.”

2. E2 The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough TIME · 29 March 2023

   “If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.”

3. E3 The case for how and why AI might kill us all New Atlas · 31 March 2023

   “If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.”

The op-ed's text calls for being willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike if a country outside the agreement builds a GPU cluster [E2, reproduced in E3]. Separately, it says allied nuclear countries should be willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange to reduce the risk of large AI training runs [E1]. Neither passage proposes nuclear strikes against countries that simply refuse to sign. This matches the 'true' example in the resolution criteria.