Jeffrey Sachs

The leaders of the AI industry have told us, in their own words, that the stakes are as high as they can be. They themselves should stop their mad rush forward, and Congress should take the companies at their word and act with urgency.

Shape the changes ahead so that AI fulfills its vast potential to raise living standards and wellbeing, not for a few, but for all parts of society and all regions of the world.

We do not know where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused this pandemic, came from. Some scientists surmise that it came from a marketplace. Many scientists are worried that it came out of a laboratory through work that was underway on SARS-like viruses...