It’s time to give the public what it wants: A.I. regulation. Binyamin Appelbaum, the lead writer on economics and business for The Times’s editorial board, argues it isn’t normal to see developers “running around shouting that the sky is falling.” He joins Opinion science writer David Wallace-Wells to discuss how to make A.I. safe.

Wallace-Wells notes a panicked summer with rogue A.I. agents and a hallucination triggering military preparations. Appelbaum says the abnormal behavior of developers raising alarms should be taken seriously, if not literally. Realistic scenarios of harm—whether from humans misusing the tech or A.I. itself—deserve concern.

Appelbaum emphasizes that any dangerous technology is subject to government regulation, and it’s “frankly insane” that A.I. isn’t. The editorial board’s call is clear: regulate now. (The New York Times has sued Open AI and Microsoft claiming copyright infringement; the companies deny those claims.)