&gt;<i>The USG doesn&#x27;t have a position at this point and it&#x27;s ill prepared to react.</i><p>That&#x27;s what I thought. Kind of bizzare considering USG usually tends to stay far ahead of the curve when dealing with technology that has potentially profound national security implications. Yet at the same time, programs such as DARPA SyNAPSE exist (though only at moderate funding levels).<p>&gt;<i>In reality if there is some kind of world ending gray goo scenario that an AGI creates - nothing the US or any other Government can do will matter.</i><p>For sure. My hypothetical was intended more as taking place prior to any such disaster—in a world where AGI is viewed in the same light as WMDs, but where nothing catastrophic has yet happened. In that scenario, USG could potentially have great influence (for better or worse) over any outcome.<p>For my money, counter-proliferation measures would be ultimately worthless in that situation, except as a stop-gap to buy time for a larger project to solve AGI correctly.