UN rights chief calls for international red lines on AI, warning of existential risk
News Source : The Next Web
News Summary
- Volker Türk delivered the warning in his global update to the council’s 63rd session.
- He called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to agree on international red lines on what the technology should never be permitted to do.
- “A handful of men have almost unlimited power over AI,” he said, naming OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta among the companies in question, and describing direct engagement with those firms as something his office intends to pursue.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity.
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