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

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…”