The case for AI regulation beyond doom or utopia

An “AI Pragmatist Manifesto” argues that concern about AI’s risks can coexist with excitement about its potential. Its author, who says they spent about five years at OpenAI, draws on upheavals following the Second Industrial Revolution to warn that institutions could struggle to keep up with technological and social change. The manifesto imagines powerful AI reaching individuals or small groups, with capabilities for information warfare, weapons design, hacking and control of autonomous military systems.