U.N. Leader Says AI Regulation Is Needed to Avoid "Existential Risks"

Source: United Nations NewsVoluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence is "nowhere near sufficient" to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing human safeguards, United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk wrote on Monday. "The current race towards ever more powerful AI is a step change towards greater existential risks to every aspect of our lives," he said in an open letter.