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Security disputes and U.N. efforts raise pressure for global AI rules

Leaders, multilateral initiatives and defense conflicts all point to the widening gap between capability and governance.

The U.S. military's Legged Squad Support System, a mobile robot known as LS3, is meant to be saddled with a load and integrated with a squad of Marines or soldiers.
The U.S. military's Legged Squad Support System, a mobile robot known as LS3, is meant to be saddled with a load and integrated with a squad of Marines or soldiers. (DARPA)

GENEVA (AN) — Pressure is building across diplomatic, political and security arenas to establish guardrails for artificial intelligence, as competing approaches to governance emerge and the gap between technological capability and oversight widens.

A group of former heads of government, Nobel laureates and leading scientists, convened by The Elders, called on governments "to manage artificial intelligence with an urgency that reflects both scientific evidence and public concern," warning that current governance frameworks are falling behind rapid advances in the technology.

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