Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements About AI Development
Original-author research report on candidate approaches for verifying possible future international agreements about AI development, including compute-location, training, and evaluation questions.
Automated source check: observed.
- Issuer
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Technical Governance Team
- Jurisdiction / parties
- International research
- Instrument
- research report
- Status
- published · as of 2024-11-27
- Published
- 2024-11-27
- Last source check
- 2026-10-31T07:30:18.124533+00:00
What the instrument says
Research report, not treaty proposal with legal force.
No legal actor
The report creates no legal duty; it analyzes candidate mechanisms for hypothetical future agreements.
MIRI report abstract
What would need to be proven?
The following mappings are analysis. Candidate evidence is not proof that a vendor satisfies an obligation, and hardware attestation alone does not establish legal compliance.
- Claim to examine
- A mechanism could provide evidence concerning a specified future agreement rule.
- Candidate evidence
- Threat model, hardware inventory, inspection protocol, sensor records, and adversarial tests.
- Possible approach
- Evaluate mechanism-specific false-positive, false-negative, access, and evasion assumptions.
- Assumptions
- Participating states would agree to rules and supporting access/infrastructure.
- Limits and open questions
- Not an adopted agreement or demonstrated deployed verification system.
Original sources
- MIRI original-author research page
abstract
Published: 2024-11-27 · Retrieved: 2026-10-31T07:30:18.124533+00:00
Manual source audit: 2026-10-31T03:24:41Z
Retrieval method: automated fetch
- Original-author technical-governance page identifies Aaron Scher and Lisa Thiergart and the 27 November 2024 report date.
- It frames the work as verification approaches for possible international agreements, including state-involved development and limitations of technical feasibility.
Audit limit: This is a research proposal, not evidence that an international agreement exists or that a mechanism has been deployed.
- MIRI report PDF
executive summary
Published: 2024-11-27 · Retrieved: Not independently retrieved
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- 2026-10-31T03:24:41Z · registry record created
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- 2026-10-31T07:30:18.124533+00:00 · source check
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