Decisions about AI will last decades. Researchers need better frameworks

The decisions that leaders make today about artificial intelligence governance and research priorities could create paths that last for generations. Because of AI’s nature of pervading into nearly every aspect of life, no single academic field can predict how this technology will reshape society, which means the research community needs cross-disciplinary frameworks to avoid blind spots and separate signal from noise. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is uniquely positioned to provide this analysis by connecting researchers from various fields. This kind of rigorous, multi-field collaboration is critical at the exact moment when decision-makers are setting foundational defaults.