AI governance must account for everything from the technology’s material requirements to its effects on communities, businesses, labor markets, the environment, and strategic competition. To this end, a framework of verification-based trust—broader than national regulation and more flexible than a classic treaty—is essential.
MADRID—One way to represent the AI age is with a steep curve and a gradual slope. The curve rises almost vertically: models rapidly grow cheaper, more powerful, more accessible, and more deeply embedded in production, science, education, finance, administration, security, and war. Beneath it, the slope moves on a far shallower incline. This is the capacity of society to absorb change.
MADRID—One way to represent the AI age is with a steep curve and a gradual slope. The curve rises almost vertically: models rapidly grow cheaper, more powerful, more accessible, and more deeply embedded in production, science, education, finance, administration, security, and war. Beneath it, the slope moves on a far shallower incline. This is the capacity of society to absorb change.