Scientists Urge Global AI 'Red Lines' as Leaders Gather at UN
A coalition of over 200 experts urges enforceable international AI limits by 2026 to prevent risks like autonomous weapons and engineered pandemics, citing unprecedented societal dangers.
- More than 200 prominent figures, including Nobel laureates and former leaders, released the Global Call for AI Red Lines at the 80th UN General Assembly in New York.
- This initiative follows growing concerns over AI misuse, escalating risks, and insufficient voluntary commitments by AI companies to ensure safety and accountability.
- The campaign, coordinated by UC Berkeley, The Future Society, and France's Center for AI Safety, warns that future AI risks include engineered pandemics, mass unemployment, and systematic rights abuses.
- Signatories urge governments to establish enforceable international agreements with clear red lines prohibiting AI in lethal autonomous weapons, independent self-improvement, and nuclear war applications before the end of 2026.
- The appeal highlights that international cooperation on AI risk regulation is possible and essential to prevent universally unacceptable harms from unprecedented AI technologies.
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Researchers, technology executives, politicians and Nobel Prize winners called together on Monday to establish a regulatory framework that sets limits on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). More than 200 prominent figures, including 10 Nobel laureates and scientists working on AI giants such as Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and OpenAI, signed a letter published at the beginning of the UN General Assembly session in New York. "The AI…
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NEW YORK, Sept 23 — Technology veterans, politicians and Nobel Prize winners called on nations around the world yesterday to quickly establish “red lines” too dangerous for artificial intelligence to cross.More than 200 prominent figures including 10 Nobel laureates and scientists working at AI giants Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and OpenAI signed on to a letter released at the start of the latest session of the United Nations General A…
Nobel laureates such as Joseph Stiglitz and Maria Ressa warn of mass unemployment in view of the progress of AI. In a joint appeal, they urge politics to act.
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