Instead of a cooperative treaty, the leading power attempts to preserve its safety margin by sabotaging rival datacenters and enforcing strict semiconductor blockades.
In Plan B ('Burn the Lead' / Aggressive Containment), decision-makers conclude that a cooperative transparency deal with rivals is impossible, yet recognize that a full speed race is suicidal. They attempt to forcibly slow down rival AI programs through offensive cyber operations, supply-chain interdiction, and kinetic threats against unauthorized megaclusters.
Verification Note: Directly models Plan B on ai-2040.com (stopping rival compute infrastructure by force or blockade).
Plan B ('Kinetic Containment' & Mutually Assured AI Malfunction, arXiv:2503.05628) treats unauthorized ASI megaclusters like clandestine nuclear enrichment facilities.
As analyzed in 'Superintelligence Strategy' (Hendrycks, Schmidt, Wang, arXiv:2503.05628), gigawatt-scale datacenters have unmistakable thermal and electrical signatures from orbit. Plan B enforces non-proliferation via supply-chain interdiction, cyber sabotage, and credible kinetic deterrence against uninspected frontier runs.