AI leaders warn UN Security Council: mismanagement threatens humanity

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Leaders of major AI firms urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to establish global controls over artificial intelligence, warning that mismanagement could threaten all of humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified that safeguards are needed to prevent AI from becoming too powerful to control, and to avoid concentrating its power in one company or country. The Security Council meeting addressed whether humans or machines should make life-and-death decisions, following UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' warning about "killer robots," which experts say are already a reality or close to it.


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