Joe Biden Has a Secret Weapon Against Killer AI. It's Bureaucrats

As ChatGPT's first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. From President Joe Biden comes an oversized "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence." And UK prime minister Rishi Sunak threw a party with a cool extinction-of-the-human-race theme, wrapped up with a 28-country agreement (counting the EU as a single country) promising international cooperation to develop AI responsibly. Before anyone gets too excited, let's remember that it has been over half a century since credible studies predicted disastrous climate change. Now that the water is literally lapping at our feet and heat is making whole chunks of civilization uninhabitable, the international order has hardly made a dent in the gigatons of fossil fuel carbon dioxide spewing into the atmosphere.