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A drastic table-flip-like action a safety-conscious frontier lab could take: Burn their company to the ground
At a specific chosen moment, all employees are fired, the leadership steps down, all intellectual property+model weights are deleted and infrastructure is de-deployed/"demolished", and this is publicly announced, together with the public message that it was too dangerous to continue, and an urging of other company leaders to do the same.
(I don't think any lab is planning on doing this, but someone could.)
It's not obvious to me that an illegal act of this nature would complete successfully. Why wouldn't a company that did such a thing not be court-ordered to reassemble? How much time do you think humanity would gain from this?
Covaries with notes.