UN Secretary-General calls for international cooperation on potential risks of artificial intelligence

🔸Continuing warnings about the future of humanity alongside artificial intelligence, António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, on Wednesday, 25 Shahrivar, called on all countries of the world to cooperate in order to address its potential dangers.

🔸At the same time, one innovator and artificial intelligence specialist [Houshovareh] in Canada joined a group of experts who warn that humanity must prepare itself from now on to live with this new phenomenon.

🔸On Wednesday, the UN Secretary-General, in remarks to reporters, called for coordinated international action in this regard and said: “National action is necessary, but coordinated international action is also required. Neither will AI stay behind borders, nor will its risks.”

🔸While acknowledging the potential capabilities of Houshovareh to improve human life, he added: “But day by day the number of those issuing warnings is increasing; they are warning that progress is outpacing our understanding of the risks of artificial intelligence.”

🔸Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has also recently warned that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. He called for “steel-solid guarantees” to maintain security in this area.

🔸Over the past two weeks, the warning of a highly controversial specialist has gained attention—one that Anthropic’s CEO also described as reasonable and called for slowing the development of this technology; a proposal that was also supported by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, owner of X.AI.

🔸Now, another of the pioneers and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence, Yoshu’a Benjou, in Canada, has also joined these individuals and, in an interview with Agence France-Presse, warned that humanity “is losing control of it.”

🔸Mr. Benjou, in his interview, emphasized that safeguards such as agreements on controlling nuclear weapons are necessary to control artificial intelligence.

🔸Yoshu’a Benjou is a professor at the University of Montreal in Canada, and in 2018 he won the Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computer science.

🔸The UN Secretary-General’s warning and this Canadian scientist’s warning come after Donald Trump, the US president, two days earlier downplayed concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence and called the industry leaders’ request for tougher regulations “deception.”

🔸He said that the United States already has sufficient tools to monitor and deal with artificial intelligence companies, and warned that slowing down the development of this technology could benefit China.