U.N. Opens 81st Session With AI Talks as Rogue-Machine Fears Intensify
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 21
U.N. Opens 81st Session With AI Talks as Rogue-Machine Fears Intensify
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 21
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Hundreds of diplomats, executives, tech experts and academics gathered Monday at the United Nations for Digital Cooperation Day, focused on global coordination over artificial intelligence risks.
The talks centered on how to prevent unchecked AI from endangering humanity, reflecting sharper concern than at the event’s first edition a year ago.
Amandeep Singh Gill, the U.N.’s technology envoy, argued AI is built by humans and can be governed by humans, rejecting the idea that it is an uncontrollable force.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, newly serving as the U.N.’s first global advocate for human-centric digital governance, also urged delegates to resist narratives that portray humanity as powerless before AI.