UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a 'united, sustained, global' strategy to tackle the risks posed by artificial intelligence's rapid development, as world leaders met in the UK.
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres called for a 'united, sustained, global strategy' to tackle the risks posed by AI. Photo: Joe Giddens / POOL/AFPUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a"united, sustained, global" strategy to tackle the risks posed by artificial intelligence's rapid development, as
Guterres was joined by other political leaders including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, US Vice President Kamala Harris and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen at the two-day conference at Bletchley Park. A failure to do so, he said,"increases the risk that the technology will be used maliciously by criminals or even terrorists".or information integrity, and run the risk that humans could lose control of it, leading it to develop in"unintended directions", he added."We urgently need frameworks to deal with these risks, so that both developers and the public are safe and can have confidence in AI," he said in a statement.
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