{"id":1033836,"date":"2026-09-08T07:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033836"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:52:00","slug":"ai-could-pose-existential-risk-to-humanity-un-rights-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/08\/ai-could-pose-existential-risk-to-humanity-un-rights-chief-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could pose &#8216;existential&#8217; risk to humanity, UN rights chief warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA: U.N. rights chief Volker Turk warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to threaten humanity, and said he would urge companies in the coming days to reduce \u200cthe \u2060risks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I share \u2060the concerns of industry insiders that advanced AI could \u200bpose an existential risk to humanity,&#8221; Turk told \u200bthe U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in a sweeping speech ahead of the start of \u200bhis second term next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA: U.N. rights chief Volker Turk warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to threaten humanity, and said he would urge companies in the coming days to reduce \u200cthe \u2060risks. &#8220;I share \u2060the concerns of industry insiders that advanced AI could \u200bpose an existential risk to humanity,&#8221; Turk told \u200bthe U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in a sweeping speech ahead of the start of \u200bhis second term next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033857,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033836\/revisions\/1033857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}