United Nation: The heads of two major Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday to establish safeguards for increasingly powerful AI systems, warning that poorly managed technology could pose risks to humanity.
“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anthropic.
“We could lose control of the future to AI,” said his competitor, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
Both said the countries of the world, though the UN Security Council (UNSC), where they testified Wednesday afternoon, have to set safeguards, which would be actual controls to prevent the technology from getting too powerful to rein in. They also called for the world to make sure that the power of AI isn't concentrated in one company or country.
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The UNSC on Wednesday huddled with top technology leaders to figure out if the increasing abilities and pervasiveness of AI should be controlled and, if so, by who. Other lingering questions: How could it be done? When might it be just too late?
The day before, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of "killer robots." Experts and European leaders said that's not hyperbole but something that's already a reality or at least perilously close.