A: It is crucial that we establish boundaries for AI development.

B: Setting reasonable guardrails sounds like a great idea, but doing that will be cosmically difficult, particularly when one side is going DEFCON and the other is going public, in the stock market sense.

Note: DEFCON is the acronym used to indicate the five levels of U.S. military defense readiness, which are graded from 5 to 1 based on the perceived threat to national security. A DEFCON level of 1 represents the most critical and imminent threat. Informally, the phrase “going DEFCON” is used to describe the state of being on high alert.