AI leaders urge UN to establish safeguards as US opposes new global rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : His wasn't the only concern expressed during this high-profile UN meeting week.
61% : " US-China AI competition adds urgency The UN meeting unfolded as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for a much-anticipated state visit.
56% : " The US and China are jostling for AI dominance -- and Chinese UN Ambassador Fu Cong emphasised that all countries should be able to choose AI technology as they see fit.
47% : " Both said the countries of the world, through the UN Security Council, where they testified Wednesday, have to set safeguards of some kind to prevent the technology from getting too powerful to rein in.
46% : "We must not allow the cost of today's hesitation to become tomorrow's catastrophe," said Liberian UN Ambassador Lewis G Brown II. Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the General Assembly, said some kind of human control over machines must achieved soon.
45% : The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people -- by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing.
45% : For most of the world leaders, one key question about AI is this: Who should control life-and-death decisions -- human or machine? Amodei, Altman and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue, who spoke via a glitchy remote connection, spoke with the UN's most powerful council because they and world leaders are trying to figure out not just whether to control AI, but by whom, how it could possibly be done and when it might be just too late.
37% : The day before, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of "killer robots."

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