Nicolas Miailhe

THE WRITER IS CO-FOUNDER OF AI SAFETY CONNECT, A TRACK 1.5 DIPLOMACY PLATFORM CONVENING GOVERNMENTS, FRONTIER AI LABS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ON AI SAFETY AND GOVERNANCE.

While voluntary commitments from frontier labs signal intent and set reference points for accountability, soft norms alone cannot bend behaviour towards safety, says the writer.
NEW GLOBAL ORDER

AI governance: The summit stage is necessary but it isn’t sufficient

As the geostrategic environment deteriorates, we must accelerate efforts to boost international coordination and build governance infrastructure

From left: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind; Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief, The Economist; and Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder, Anthropic.

The lab leaders want to slow down on AI. Someone needs to help them

Here is why ‘middle powers’ like Singapore may hold the key to coordinating the advance of AI