#AI Governance

The full account of the gap between the pace of AI capability development and the pace of governance development — the regulatory frameworks being built, the international institutions being assembled, the voluntary commitments being made, and the fundamental question of whether any of it will be adequate to the challenge of governing the most consequential technology in human history.

The story of the March 2023 open letter calling for a six-month pause in AI development — who signed, who didn't, what it meant, and what it revealed about the state of AI governance. The brief, charged moment when it seemed possible that humanity might collectively decide to slow down before building more powerful AI — and what happened instead.

The third Godfather of Deep Learning, who spent his career building the mathematical foundations of neural network learning and who has, in the years since the ChatGPT moment, become one of the most active and most credible advocates for AI safety research and AI regulation. Why the person who built so much of what AI is now believes that the field's progress requires governance it has been reluctant to accept.