AI & Enterprise
No need to slow frontier AI development, professor says
John O. McGinnis (John O. McGinnis), a Northwestern University law professor, argues in a Wall Street Journal op-ed against calls to slow frontier AI development. He divides AI risks into loss of human control and malicious human use, saying the latter is not speculative. Slowing development may delay defensive tools while existing threats persist. He cites examples of improved vulnerability detection and says safeguards and monitoring can limit misuse.