r/artificial - One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future

'We' would have to be the countries doing AI development. There have been successful treaties that affect what the counties do. Montreal Protocol is the most famous, but the Outer Space Treaty is probably a better model. Probably most important is that treaty get produced and ratified before someone fields a systems, because they will not want to give it up. While countries do not know if they are ahead or behind in fielding such a system, they have a motivation to do the treaty, so they don't lose.