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AI Leaders Urge UN to Regulate Technology Over Humanity Risks

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sounds a stark warning: if AI isn't managed carefully, it could pose an existential threat to humanity. He urges the UN to take a closer look at broad risk management controls to prevent this worst-case scenario.

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AI Developers Warn of Existential Risks, But Evidence Lags

As AI developers sound the alarm on existential risks, they're facing a daunting challenge: how to navigate uncertainty when the stakes are sky-high and the evidence is scarce. It's a problem that physicists like Hans Bethe and Emil Konopinski grappled with during the Manhattan Project, and one that still resonates today.

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