🔶 United Nations: Immediately prevent unprecedented dangers by taking steps to curb artificial intelligence

🔶 United Nations: Immediately prevent unprecedented dangers by taking steps to curb artificial intelligence

Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanded that countries and companies active in the field of advanced artificial intelligence act immediately to curb this technology, which he claims could create "unprecedented risks".

According to Agence France-Presse, in names sent to countries and artificial intelligence developers and shared with the media, Volker Turk warns that the world "is on the brink of an irreversible change, a change that will affect not only us, but also future generations of humanity."

He called the current race to achieve the most powerful artificial intelligence "a leap toward greater existential risks for all aspects of human life." Turk sends this letter at a time when concerns about the dangers of "supercognitive" or "superintelligent" computer systems are on full display; This is after Jacob Cookson, a researcher at Anthropic Inc., publicly resigned from one of the leading artificial intelligence companies "for fear that the technology could get out of human control."