The United Nations human rights chief has warned that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an “existential risk to humanity”, calling for immediate action to make the technology safer.
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, Volker Türk said people faced “unfamiliar, even unprecedented” threats to their rights.
"The need for AI governance is widely acknowledged, but where is the action?" he asked, warning that "delay only benefits the massive tech companies, their owners and enablers".
Türk said that “a handful of men has almost unlimited power over AI, which we are repeatedly told has unimaginable computing capacity”.
“They talk about freedom, but on closer inspection, this turns out to be little more than the freedom to exploit our data,” he said.
