Comment by Geoffrey Odlum

Based on my experience over a long career as a US diplomat working on nuclear nonproliferation treaties, I fully support this letter calling for the negotiation of an international AI safety treat. History has demonstrated the effectiveness of international treaties and regimes like the Treaty of the Non-Prolifreation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an the Biologial Weapons Convwntin (BWC) to set enforceable and verifiable global rules for responsible nations to safely manage technologies that pose an existential risk to humanity. This call for an AI safety treat is feasible, practical, and achievable. We only lack the political will of leading technology powers like the United States, the European Union, and others to take this up as an urgent diplomatic imperative. The time has come to do so.