Rob Reich, Diyi Yang, Surya Ganguli | Prompt Response: Should AI Slow Down?

This discussion takes on the argument running underneath most current AI policy debates: whether the technology poses a genuine risk to humanity, and whether its pace of development can or should slow. Rob Reich (Stanford Political Science, HAI) brings a political philosopher's account of how societies govern frontier science, and why leaving the critical decisions to researchers who answer to corporate leadership is a pattern with a poor track record. Diyi Yang (Stanford Computer Science, HAI) brings the view from inside the systems themselves, where her group's research on AI agents in the w