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References: The Grand Council of Mythical Beasts

  1. United Nations General Assembly - Wikipedia - Structure and proceedings of the world's primary intergovernmental deliberative body, the institutional template for the chapter's mythical beast summit.

  2. AI safety - Wikipedia - Overview of research addressing risks from advanced AI systems, the existential concern that drives the mythical beasts to convene their unprecedented council.

  3. Paris Agreement - Wikipedia - The landmark 2015 climate accord, a model for international cooperation on existential threats that this chapter's beasts attempt to replicate with comparable success.

  4. Governance of AI: A Manifesto - Wendell Wallach - MIT Press - Framework for governing transformative AI technologies, providing the policy backdrop for the council's deliberations on AI-driven obsolescence.

  5. The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books - Unflinching account of collective failure to address climate change, paralleling the chapter's portrayal of mythical beasts debating existential threats without taking action.

  6. AI Governance Frameworks - World Economic Forum - International governance initiatives for AI policy, the real-world equivalent of the chapter's fictional Grand Council.

  7. EU AI Act - EU AI Act Hub - Comprehensive guide to the European Union's AI regulation, the most ambitious real attempt at the kind of governance the chapter's mythical beasts discuss.

  8. AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory - AlgorithmWatch - Database tracking AI ethics guidelines worldwide, documenting humanity's own version of the council's inability to agree on anything binding.

  9. The Existential Risk of AI - Center for AI Safety - The 2023 one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk signed by hundreds of researchers, the real-world urgency behind the chapter's satirical summit.

  10. Conference of the Parties (COP) - United Nations Climate Change - Documentation of annual climate summits, providing a template for grand international gatherings that produce impressive communiqués and modest action.