Escaping the AI safety nightmare: What can governments do?

A dramatic resignation from AI company Anthropic this week where a researcher accused it and OpenAI of “gambling with our lives,” threw fuel onto the fire around AI safety. As governments from California to the U.K. scramble for a political response to the issue of whether AI can be made safe, three experts told POLITICO that to make real progress, laboratories, governments and international bodies must first get on the same page about testing.