A perspective from Aidan Gomez, Co-founder & CEO of Cohere Artificial intelligence is remaking the world we live in. Within a generation, the way we discover medicine, manage power grids, and secure our national infrastructure will be completely transformed. Many people already realize this and are working to build that future responsibly. Many people underestimate the scale and pace of change coming. Some, however, claim to foresee this change and use it to serve their own ends. Here is the question nobody is asking clearly enough: should a handful of select, market-dominant AI companies from Silicon Valley get to define the rules and safety standards of a generational technology for the entire world? All while simultaneously determining how fast this technology progresses? We have tried that before with very poor results.…