In both cases a central safety effort seems nearly impossible. E.g. trying to enforce international AI risk cooperation via air strikes against data centers [1] can easily be avoided by defecting countries by building supercomputers underground.

With the moon bugs this wasn't a big problem, as they were so unlikely. But for AI the risk seems quite large to me.

[1] https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

Right, but the original comment is trying to draw comfort from the actual Apollo scenario where central enforcement very much happened, not from my modified scenario. I think we're on roughly the same page.