Scientists inspired the right guardrails for nuclear energy, the internet, and DNA research. Let them do the same for AI

Fortune April 26, 2024
Fadi Chehadé

In July 1957, 22 prominent scientists gathered quietly at a private lodge in Pugwash, a small town in Canada’s Nova Scotia province. They had answered a call to action by Albert Einstein, inviting scientists to shape guardrails that would contain the danger of nuclear weapons. The Pugwash Conference earned a Nobel Peace Prize, and more importantly, it laid the foundations for the nuclear non-proliferation treaties, which saved our world from risks of annihilation.

Today, governments and businesses are frantically searching for ways to limit the many feared perils of AI–especially those from Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the next phase of AI evolution. AGI will perform a wide range of cognitive tasks with an efficiency and accuracy far superior to current...

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