India, Feb. 14 -- Three years ago, a few months after ChatGPT was released, we wrote in this newspaper suggesting that the G20 charter an international panel on technological change. The purpose would have been to help shepherd humanity through what was already becoming a turbulent period, as advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biology began to leave laboratories and become powerful forces in human affairs.

Our reasoning was straightforward. Before anything effective could be done, the major economic and scientific powers needed a shared understanding of what was happening. Political leaders required relatively direct and frequent access to the best available analysis of emerging technologies, their risks, and their opportunitie...