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An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its President

An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its President

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In 1986, Reagan and Gorbachev met in Reykjavik for an informal conversation that made nuclear coordination imaginable. 40 years later, world leaders gathered in the same room to discuss how we can do the same for AI. Tristan and Aza were there. Listen to

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On October 11, 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met at
Höfði House in Reykjavik, Iceland, to confront the threat hanging
over both their nations: the nuclear arms race. The summit was
hastily arranged, light on ceremony, and ended without a deal.
But today it’s seen as the moment that upended the game theory of
the Cold War. A year later, the two leaders signed the first
treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.

Forty years to the day, Tristan and Aza joined 15 world leaders
at Höfði House, including Icelandic President Halla Tómasdóttir,
for a dialogue on global coordination around AI. It capped a
weekend in Reykjavik where leaders, diplomats, and policymakers
had candid conversations about the AI future we’re headed toward,
and made commitments to steer toward a better one.

The 1986 Reykjavik meeting didn’t end the nuclear arms race. It
made ending it imaginable. That’s exactly the moment we need
today with AI.

In this episode, Tristan and Aza sit down with President
Tómasdóttir to discuss what happened in Reykjavik and what it
means for our future.

Note: This episode was recorded on Monday, 10/12.

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Corrections

Tristan referred to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev as
“the two presidents.” Gorbachev was Soviet General Secretary. He
was not made President of the USSR until 1989.

Tristan referred to The Day After as the largest
television event in history. It is actually the second-largest
non-sports TV event, after the series finale of MASH.

The 50 petabytes figure for the OpenAI swarm investigation
refers to the full archive OpenAI is searching related to the
Hugging Face incident, including training and eval records,
rather than just the swarm’s communication.

Aza mistakenly referred to the 1986 Reykjavik “accord.” The
leaders did not leave the meeting with an accord.

The Stubb/Støre statement was signed by 22 leaders from 20
countries, not by 22 countries as Tristan said.

The quote from Postman is “clarity is courage,” not “clarity
creates courage,” as Aza said.

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