UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world’s first global scientific body on the technology says the moment to act is now.
That is the conclusion of the preliminary report from the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, launched on Wednesday ahead of a major governance summit in Geneva. The panel warns that the window to establish effective global oversight remains open, but may not stay that way for much longer.
Its central worry is concentration. According to the report, the United States controls around three-quarters of the computing power behind the world’s leading AI supercomputers, while China holds roughly 15%.
Together that gives the two countries about 90% of the compute that trains the most capable systems. Most of the frontier models themselves are also built by companies headquartered in those two nations.
Speed is the problem
The report describes an “evidence...
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