is for a technological equivalent of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); an International Panel on AI Safety, or IPAIS. Consider the IPCC’s remit: It exists to provide “regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.”

“Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one—not even their creators—can understand, predict, or reliably control.”