{
  "id": 17000,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05173",
  "title": "The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.05173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole. Governments may eventually conclude that these risks warrant restraining AI development. This motivates the question: will governments still be able to restrain AI development in the future, should they want to do so? In this paper we analyze which world events and changes to the state of AI development would make future governan",
  "authors": "Peter Barnett",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17000",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05173",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}