Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan on why sovereign AI makes Cold War-style verification necessary: "From my very idealistic perspective, I'm surprised to see so much investment in sovereign AI." "You could probably consolidate a lot of these efforts. But it seems like that's not the world we're in or the one we're headed towards. There are actually increased efforts to build AI in a sovereign way." "So that takes having a shared language to communicate about what the framework for evaluations is, and where we're going to collectively align around the risks." "There's a lot to learn from nuclear here. Reagan had this line, 'Trust but verify.' We're starting to see signs of trust in that Xi Jinping and Trump are going to be meeting... But there is no clear way to actually do the verification part of this." "Having the shared language of evals will allow us to say things like, you have the right number of nuclear warheads. In that example, there were also flyovers, a mechanism by which a country could audit another country's nuclear stockpile." "If there's concern about the societal or even existential risk of AI, it will necessitate us constructing this shared language of evaluations to do the verification process." @RayanKrishnan @JenniferHli(a16z)