With the United States showing no interest in regulating AI, middle powers have an opportunity to take the lead on governance. By banding together, these countries could condition market access on meeting a common set of safety requirements and explore joint investment in technical capacity.
WASHINGTON, DC—The warnings about the safety of frontier AI models continue to grow louder. Writing in Time in early October, the former chief scientist of the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute put the probability of us all dying because of smarter-than-human AI systems at 50%. On the same day, a senior OpenAI employee announced that he had left the company because of its “broken” safety culture. But the United States has shown no interest in regulating the technology, except for a “morally binding” voluntary accord recently signed by tech CEOs and US President Donald Trump.
