A WAY OUT : How the DOJ Can Enforce Against the Misuse of SI Using the Authority It Already Has

The DOJ's Super Intelligence Task Force is against the misuse of SI, not against SI. Itsmandate — the Attorney General's own words — is to identify and prosecute individualswhose use of SI violates the law, including by maliciously targeting American taxpayers,critical U.S. infrastructure, or other aspects of our national security. That mandate is correct, and it is incomplete in one way: it is downstream of the harm. Atask force can prosecute the person after the misuse. It cannot specify the system before the misuse. The way out is to give it the instrument that prevents misuse upstream, using theauthority it already has. The instrument is the specification the existing law already requires. The proceeding belowis how the task force can apply it, step by step. The proposal is not a new law. It is the application of what is already in force. ALCAPONE-LLM states it: the shift is mandatory because the standards already require it. The proposal is also not complete, and it says so. It solves the action half of the problem.The answer half requires signed sources, and the institution that would sign them does notyet exist. Both halves must travel together, because a proposal that delivers the gift without the warning is a trap, and a warning without the gift is despair.