AI executives urge UN controls as climate activists target tech companies
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Leaders of major artificial intelligence companies urged the United Nations on Wednesday to establish controls for increasingly powerful AI systems, warning that poorly managed development could threaten public safety and humanity.
“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said, according to France24. Reuters also reported that AI leaders raised security risks as the technology’s capabilities expand. Details of specific regulations proposed at the UN were not reported.
The appeal came during climate week in New York City, where activists challenged the industry’s framing of AI itself as the main danger. Protesters gathered Monday outside OpenAI’s Manhattan offices and later picketed Google and Amazon, according to The Guardian. Other demonstrators, including clergy, were arrested while disrupting a closed-door AI health summit.
Activists also planned to protest at a Brooklyn gas-fired power plant that had been scheduled to close before being purchased to supply energy for AI operations, The Guardian reported. Their demonstrations focused on the environmental impact and corporate control of AI infrastructure rather than the technology alone.
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