Professor Gary Marcus

I mean, if you think about nuclear proliferation, it's not about one country managing itself.

It's about all the countries, everybody policing everybody in this kind of shared, centralized way.

and i'm no fan of centralization you know i like free markets i like everybody defending themselves right everybody pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps unfortunately when it comes to creating a smarter species you really do need some oversight that random hackers don't decide to create a smarter species and unleash it on the whole human race so you do need something like nuclear proliferation enforcement that's happening through

a consortium of nations.

And this all has to happen fast.

So when I see these little efforts, one state at a time proposing something, it's better than nothing.

And the funny thing is that the AI companies are already aggressively fighting even that, even these token efforts.

But we need to just get serious.

The grassroots, the people watching right now, they need to consider this an urgent voting issue.

Whatever you think is your number one voting issue, consider surviving the next decade to also be an important voting issue.

So it has to be grassroots because leaders, they're not going to really lead from the front.

You're not going to have a leader that says, hey, I've heard the argument for why we're doomed.

I've looked at Metaculous.

I know the predictions.

So trust me, America, we need to go do these international treaties.

We need to have a stop button on AI.

There's not going to be a forward-thinking leader who gets elected president or to Congress and pulls the nation along.

It has to be what the voters are demanding, right?

The voters are going to get what they're demanding in the polls.

And so, you know, the term raising awareness, usually it's just like hippies wasting their time, you know, raising awareness.