This discussion takes on the argument running underneath most current AI policy debates: whether the technology poses a genuine risk to humanity, and whether its pace of development can or should slow. Rob Reich (Stanford Political Science, HAI) brings a political philosopher's account of how societies govern frontier science, and why leaving the critical decisions to researchers who answer to corporate leadership is a pattern with a poor track record. Diyi Yang (Stanford Computer Science, HAI) brings the view from inside the systems themselves, where her group's research on AI agents in the workplace and on model failures across dialects and cultures documents harms already measurable today. And Surya Ganguli (Stanford Applied Physics, HAI) brings a technical perspective on how
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