{"id":1035505,"date":"2026-09-15T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035505"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:25:12","slug":"at-a-watershed-moment-for-ai-un-rights-chief-urges-urgent-global-ai-governance-warns-of-human-rights-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/at-a-watershed-moment-for-ai-un-rights-chief-urges-urgent-global-ai-governance-warns-of-human-rights-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAt a watershed moment for AI\u201d: UN rights chief urges urgent global AI governance, warns of human rights risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva [Switzerland], September 15 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk 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. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday, titled \u201cTo protect human rights now and into the future, we must govern AI urgently,\u201d T\u00fcrk said the world is at a \u201cwatershed moment\u201d as companies and researchers advance AI at \u201cdizzying speed\u201d, with investments in AI and its underlying infrastructure breaking records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva [Switzerland], September 15 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk 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 \u201cTo protect human rights now and into the future, we must govern AI urgently,\u201d T\u00fcrk said the world is at a \u201cwatershed moment\u201d as companies and researchers advance AI at \u201cdizzying speed\u201d, with investments in AI and its underlying infrastructure breaking records.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035505","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=1035505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035530,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035505\/revisions\/1035530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}