Comment by Kenneth Payne

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is worried about the emergence of a ‘superintelligent’ AI - perhaps even an AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, that will be far smarter than humans. So, this week they published a memo sketching out how that risk might be managed. They’re proposing governance that looks like the international regime for nuclear energy, the IAEA. This will regulate who does what research (perhaps by international treaty, it’s not clear) and then monitor compliance. Alas, there are some big, I think insurmountable, problems with their proposal. [...] Back to the idea of international regulation. If only we could get all governments agree to regulation along OpenAI’s lines… Fat chance.