Managing the transition to a world with abundant and powerful AI to optimize for safety and benefits to people should be one of the world's highest priorities.

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  Going all in on AI is not the highest-return strategy for human flourishing, even if AI does produce rapid scientific advances.

  Altman says managing the transition to abundant and powerful AI should be one of the highest priorities in the world. Trefethen says going all in on AI is not the highest-return strategy for human flourishing even if AI does produce rapid progress, because the bottlenecks that remain are not ones a model removes. Both are priority claims, and they rank the same portfolio differently.

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• International coordination on AI development should become a top priority for governments around the world. JPJakub Pachocki6 Sept 2026
• In an AI world growth and economic value come easily; distribution, wealth and political freedom are the hard parts, and that is where policy belongs. DADario Amodei13 Feb 2026
• A poor country should prioritise owning a piece of AI over retraining its workers, but it should not bet everything on that. PTPhil Trammell4 Jun 2026
• Plain end-to-end learning is not enough for a safety-critical agent that has to be superhuman, however fast it gets you started. DDDmitri Dolgov3 Aug 2026
• AI will soon become important enough that a senior government official becomes formally responsible for regulating it. BHByrne Hobart14 Sept 2026

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