Welcome to the AGI Era of AI Governance
Interconnects (Nathan L.)43 days agoCommentaryWriting in Interconnects, Nathan Lambert declares that AI governance has entered the AGI era — a transition he frames as a one-way door society passed through without adequate preparation. The piece signals a shift from hypothetical, future-oriented governance debates to urgent, present-tense reckoning. Lambert's core contention is that the frameworks, institutions, and norms designed to manage AI risk were not ready when the threshold arrived.
AI warfare is already here★ 72
The Verge AI62 days agoEthicsThe article opens at UN talks in Geneva, where lethal autonomous systems were still largely discussed as future hypotheticals in 2017. It argues that military AI is no longer a distant “killer robot” scenario but an active governance challenge. The key questions now concern meaningful human control, accountability, and whether international rules can keep up with battlefield deployment.