A sketch of solution that doesn’t involve (traditional) world leaders could look like “Software engineers get together and agree that the field is super fucked, and start imposing stronger regulations and guidelines like traditional engineering disciplines use but on software.” This is a way of lowering the cost of alignment tax in the sense that, if software engineers all have a security mindset, or have to go through a security review, there is more process and knowledge related to potential problems and a way of executing a technical solution at the last moment. However, this description is itself is entirely political not technical, yet easily could not reach the awareness of world leaders or the general populace.
A sketch of solution that doesn’t involve (traditional) world leaders could look like “Software engineers get together and agree that the field is super fucked, and start imposing stronger regulations and guidelines like traditional engineering disciplines use but on software.” This is a way of lowering the cost of alignment tax in the sense that, if software engineers all have a security mindset, or have to go through a security review, there is more process and knowledge related to potential problems and a way of executing a technical solution at the last moment. However, this description is itself is entirely political not technical, yet easily could not reach the awareness of world leaders or the general populace.