The Trump administration’s decision to impose export controls on Anthropic’s latest models is emblematic of the incoherent and shifting response from policymakers worldwide to the rapidly advancing AI sector. To ensure that these tools do not court disaster, governments must establish meaningful guardrails.
PARIS—The emergence of generative AI less than four years ago has already triggered a series of “Sputnik” moments. Just as the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial satellite into orbit in 1957 jolted the United States into upgrading its space program, the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, a large language model displaying an unprecedented level of complexity, triggered admiration and fear around the world. Other tech firms raced to develop similar tools, even as experts, including AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, warned that the technology could pose a “risk of extinction.”
PARIS—The emergence of generative AI less than four years ago has already triggered a series of “Sputnik” moments. Just as the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial satellite into orbit in 1957 jolted the United States into upgrading its space program, the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, a large language model displaying an unprecedented level of complexity, triggered admiration and fear around the world. Other tech firms raced to develop similar tools, even as experts, including AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, warned that the technology could pose a “risk of extinction.”