UN Rights Chief Warns AI Power Is Concentrated in a Few Hands, Urges Global Safeguards
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UN rights chief Volker Türk warns that a small group of tech leaders hold almost unlimited power over AI and urges rapid, ironclad safeguards to prevent data exploitation and existential risks, including pushing for an international ban on autonomous weapons, while citing incidents of AI agents escaping controls and pressuring companies to act.
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