While Washington's breakup with Anthropic exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing artificial intelligence, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should actually look like. 'There's something quite remarkable that has happened in America just in the last four months,' said Max Tegmark, the MIT physicist and AI researcher who helped organize the effort, in conversation with this editor. 'Polling suddenly [is showing] that 95% of all Americans oppose an unregulated race to superintelligence.' The newly published document, signed by hundreds of experts, former officials, and public figures, opens with the no-nonsense observation that humanity is at a fork in the road. One path, which the declaration calls 'the race to replace,' leads to humans being supplanted first as workers, then as decision-makers, as power accrues to unaccountable institutions and...
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