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Big tech firms recklessly pursuing profits from AI, says UN head: International community has no strategy to deal with risks, António Guterres tells Davos meeting
International community has no strategy to deal with risks, António Guterres tells Davos meeting
In a fierce attack on the technology multinationals, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that every breakthrough in generative AI increased the threat of unintended consequences. The chief executive, who was sacked last November from his role running the ChatGPT developer and then reinstated a few days later, said the silver lining was that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, were the way forward for AI. Last year, Guterres accused fossil fuel companies of pursuing business strategies incompatible with human development, saying: “These two issues – climate and AI – are exhaustively discussed by governments, by the media, by leaders here in Davos.
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