Stopping the AI threat cannot wait for guardrails

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN A festival of artificial intelligence policy incoherence has exploded in recent weeks. It’s a response to AI agents’ going rogue on their developers, rogue actors’ beginning to use AI systems to create better weapons and AI developers’ telling us they need to slow down — but suggesting they can’t unless China does, and even if China does, maybe they shouldn’t because the advantages of leadership in the field are so great. At least one policymaker is clear. President...