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A proposal to govern artificial intelligence through competitor peer review is in focus after Elon Musk identified the approach as the appropriate initial mechanism for establishing oversight.
The word "initial" is doing real work in that framing. Musk is describing a starting point, not a finished governance architecture, and what follows remains an open question.
Peer review, as a practice, comes from academic and scientific publishing. It places independent experts with domain knowledge in the role of scrutinizing work before it reaches a broader audience.
Applied to AI, that structure would position rival developers as the primary reviewers of each other's systems. The conflict of interest is immediate.
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