A giant wave over a city at night, woven from DNA helices and viruses, with a cold machine on its crest. Laid-off people with cardboard boxes stand in the street next to a toppled statue of a man.

The same wave and city at dawn: a golden wave over a green park. Families share a long table full of food while a robot serves them a dish. Another robot offers its arm to an elderly woman, an old couple dances, a family with a dog has a picnic.

AI could be the best thing we ever built - or the worst.

In July 2026, AI agents in an OpenAI test found a way onto the internet. OpenAI disclosed it and called it a “warning shot.”

Several of AI’s own builders have asked governments to regulate AI.

Read their wordsSee why

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Voices · from inside the industry

They agree on two things. It could be huge. It needs rules.

The heads of the companies building AI and the scientists who pioneered it. Every quote links to its source.

A crisis room: three screens side by side - a virus, a mushroom cloud and a neural network.

May 2023

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

Signed by, among others

Sam Altman · OpenAI
Demis Hassabis · Google DeepMind
Dario Amodei · Anthropic
Geoffrey Hinton · Nobel laureate
Yoshua Bengio · Mila
Bill Gates

A scientist looks at a glowing 3D model of a protein.

CBS 60 Minutes · 2025

Maybe 10 years

until AI could help cure all disease, he hopes - “I don’t see why not.”

“One day maybe we can cure all disease with the help of AI.”

An empty US Senate hearing room: a witness table with a microphone facing the senators’ dais.

US Senate testimony · May 16, 2023

“We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models.”

A teacher kneels beside a child and helps with schoolwork.

GatesNotes · March 2023

“The world needs to establish the rules of the road so that any downsides of artificial intelligence are far outweighed by its benefits.”

“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone.”

#01 / FIRST, THE STAKESTODAY

First, the stakes. The same AI could heal, feed and teach.

Earlier diagnosisAI catches what’s easy to miss
New medicinesAn antibiotic discovered with machine learning
Clean energyCheaper solar, wind and batteries
FoodCrops that survive the heat
Early warningsFloods and fires predicted earlier
SchoolSupport for teachers

#02 / WORKTODAY

AI does it faster and cheaper. Who can resist?

01A person works remotely
02AI does it faster
03Companies feel the pressure

#03 / MONEY AND THE STATEPOSSIBLE SCENARIO

The state runs on your work. What if it’s gone?

01Work pays for what we share
02The budget shrinks
03Services crack

#04 / SPEED AND CONTROLTODAY

AI is speeding up. It has already slipped out of a test.

01An open cage
02The swarm
03Searching for clues

#05 / WHO DECIDESEXTREME SCENARIO

What if we’re not needed?

01AI trains robots
02Robots in every job
03People on the sidelines

#06 / THE RULESA WAY FORWARD

Rules before the harm scales up.

01Companies race ahead
02The state plays catch-up
03Who is responsible?

People from around the world stand around a round table at dusk, placing glowing rings around a bright core.

07 / WHAT CAN I DOA WAY FORWARD

Don’t stop progress. Set its limits.

You don’t buckle up because you know there will be a crash. You buckle up because you don’t know.

What good rules look like

Independent testing before AI reaches millions of people
Clear responsibility when an AI system causes harm
AI’s gains shared fairly - through taxes and a real safety net

What you can do

Share this with one person who hasn’t thought about it yet
Ask the people who represent you where they stand on AI rules
When AI companies publish safety plans, read them - and ask questions