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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edith M. Lederer

Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety

Eskinder Debebe / United Nations Photo

The handful of big tech companies leading the race to commercialize AI can’t be trusted to guarantee the safety of systems we don’t yet understand and that are prone to “chaotic or unpredictable behavior,” an artificial intelligence company executive told the first U.N. Security Council meeting on AI’s threats to global peace on Tuesday.

Jack Clark, co-founder of the AI company Anthropic, said that’s why the world must come together to prevent the technology’s misuse.

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