Treat AI Makers as Partners

Public discourse should stop treating AI developers as a monolithic threat and instead distinguish among model types (LLMs, world models, small models) and the institutions that build them. Policy and civic strategy should prioritize cooperative governance mechanisms that enlist builders as co‑stewards of safety rather than default adversaries. — Framing builders as partners changes who sets policy, how safeguards get designed, and whether societies can practically steer transformative AI.