{"id":1033898,"date":"2026-09-08T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033898"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:20:07","slug":"ai-could-pose-existential-risk-to-humanity-un-rights-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/08\/ai-could-pose-existential-risk-to-humanity-un-rights-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could pose &#8216;existential risk to humanity&#8217;: UN rights chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations rights chief warned Monday that artificial intelligence could pose an &#8220;existential threat to humanity&#8221;, demanding immediate action to reduce the risks. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk warned that humans currently faced &#8220;unfamiliar, even unprecedented&#8221; threats to their rights. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need for AI governance is widely acknowledged, but where is the action?&#8221; he asked, warning that &#8220;delay only benefits the massive tech companies, their owners and enablers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations rights chief warned Monday that artificial intelligence could pose an &#8220;existential threat to humanity&#8221;, demanding immediate action to reduce the risks. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk warned that humans currently faced &#8220;unfamiliar, even unprecedented&#8221; threats to their rights. &#8220;The need for AI governance is widely acknowledged, but where is the action?&#8221; he asked, warning that &#8220;delay only benefits the massive tech companies, their owners and enablers&#8221;.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033898","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=1033898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033916,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033898\/revisions\/1033916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}