UN panel calls for guardrails on AI as current safeguards are ‘unraveling’

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A United Nations-backed panel warned that current AI safeguards are failing and urged global leaders and tech companies to implement stronger regulations. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed support for increased engagement by external experts and AI safety institutes.

The United Nations-backed Independent International Scientific Panel on AI on Monday urged world leaders and tech companies to implement new safeguards on artificial intelligence, with the concern that existing safeguards are “unraveling.” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gueterres welcomed the report and encouraged “external experts, including from frontier AI labs and AI safety institutes, to engage…