“At a watershed moment for AI”: UN rights chief urges urgent global AI governance, warns of human rights risks

Geneva [Switzerland], September 15 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called for urgent global governance of advanced artificial intelligence, warning that the rapid development of increasingly capable AI systems is putting human rights, critical infrastructure and democratic institutions at growing risk.

In a statement issued on Monday, titled “To protect human rights now and into the future, we must govern AI urgently,” Türk said the world is at a “watershed moment” as companies and researchers advance AI at “dizzying speed”, with investments in AI and its underlying infrastructure breaking records.