On Monday, more than 200 former heads of state, diplomats, Nobel laureates, AI leaders, scientists, and others all agreed on one thing: There should be an international agreement on “red lines” that AI should never cross — for instance, not allowing AI to impersonate a human being or self-replicate.
They, along with more than 70 organizations that address AI, have all signed the Global Call for AI Red Lines initiative, a call for governments to reach an “international political agreement on ‘red lines’ for AI by the end of 2026.” Signatories include British Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba, Anthropic CISO Jason Clinton, Google DeepMind research scientist Ian Goodfellow, and others.
“The goal is not to react after a major incident occurs… but