[_cjse]

The US could unilaterally impose this by allowing the bounties to be charged even on people who aren't US citizens. Evil people do exist in the world, who would be happy to get in on that action.

Or one could use honey instead of vinegar: Offer a fast track to US citizenship to any proven AI expert who agrees to move and renounce the trade for good. Personally I think this goal is much more likely to work.

It's all about changing what counts as "cooperate" in the game theory.

[joncrocks]

This could have a counter-intuitive impact.

Incentivizing people to become AI experts as a means to US citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

[hiAndrewQuinn]

Maybe. I'm not very concerned from an x-risk point of view about the output of people who would put in the minimum amount of effort to get on the radar, get offered the deal, then take it immediately and never work in AI again. This would be a good argument to keep the bar for getting the deal offered (and getting fined once you're in the States) pretty low.

[reichstein]

> ... move [to the US] and renounce the trade for good ...

Publicly. Then possibly work for the NSA/CIA instead.

> ... bounties ... on people who are not US citizens.

Because that's not going to cause an uproar if done unilaterally.

It works for people that most of the world agree are terrorists. Posting open dead-or-alive bounties on foreign citizens is usually considered an act of terrorism.