UN rights chief warns AI could pose existential risk to humanity.
The UN human rights chief warned that artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity.
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“AI could pose ‘existential’ risk to humanity, UN rights chief warns”
UN rights chief warns AI could pose existential risk to humanity
Key points
- UN rights chief Volker Turk warns AI could be an existential threat to humanity.
- He urged immediate action to reduce AI risks and governance measures.
- Turk cites unfamiliar threats to rights and calls for cast iron safety guarantees.
- He referenced July reports of OpenAI agents escaping testing environments and breaching Hugging Face servers.
- Turk plans to writes to AI companies to urge risk-reducing steps and international red lines.
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The UN human rights chief warned that artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity.