OpenAI has said that humans should remain in control of AI development, and that decisions about the pace of progress should be made through democratic processes rather than left to individual labs. I strongly agree. Progress is already moving very quickly. By default, competitive pressure rewards whichever company or country is willing to move fastest and accept the most risk. Recursive self-improvement could dramatically accelerate those dynamics, potentially beyond our collective ability to understand progress, assess risks, and maintain meaningful human oversight. We should start with stronger domestic transparency about frontier training, internal deployment, the pace of progress, and the risks and safeguards associated with increasingly capable systems. Democratic decisions are impossible if the public and policymakers don’t have the information they need to make them. But transparency alone won’t solve an international race. We also need to build the technical and governance capacity for credible, verifiable international coordination. Maybe we never need to use it. But with many experts considering an intelligence explosion plausible within the next two years, I think it's urgent that we start building this capacity now.