Center for Humane Technology. Can the World Coordinate on AI? A Conversation with the President of Iceland. Your Undivided Attention, October 2026. Video, 42 minutes.
The hosts and President Halla Tómasdóttir describe a dialogue held at Höfði House on the fortieth anniversary of the 1986 Reykjavik summit, at which around fifteen leaders signed a call for a pause on uncontrolled recursive self-improvement in AI. They also describe a youth-led national dialogue in Iceland whose results were published openly. The wiki uses the episode as a worked case for the communique test on the coordination-surface page: the leaders’ call publishes seeks without counterparties, and the national dialogue publishes a trace that lacks offers and seeks.