UN Secretary General Highlights Threats from Digital Technologies and Climate Change
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres held two press briefings at UN headquarters in New York last week. The first briefing dealt with the risks of artificial intelligence and social media digital technologies. The second briefing dealt with climate change.
In his June 12th press briefing, Secretary General Guterres said, “New technology is moving at warp speed. And so are the threats that come with it. Alarm bells over the latest form of artificial intelligence – generative AI – are deafening.” He expressed the fear shared by many of the future evolution of AI that “completely abolishes human agency and creates a monster that nobody will be able to control.”