AI chiefs urge UN safeguards, warn humanity faces risk without global rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The UN meeting took place as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for a state visit, with AI watchers looking for signals from his talks with Trump.
53% : With the United States and China competing for AI dominance, Chinese UN Ambassador Fu Cong said all countries should be free to choose AI technology as they see fit.
42% : The discussion at the UN also brought into focus growing worries over AI use in warfare, including the prospect of machines making life-and-death decisions without human control.
41% : A day earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had warned of "killer robots".
39% : The executives said safeguards were needed through the UN Security Council and called for steps to stop the technology from becoming too powerful to rein in.
36% : Top executives of major artificial intelligence firms urged the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to put safeguards around the fast-expanding technology, warning that poor management could put humanity at risk.
33% : Liberian UN Ambassador Lewis G Brown II said, "We must not allow the cost of today's hesitation to become tomorrow's catastrophe."

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