Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can’t be trusted to guarantee AI safety

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The handful of big tech companies leading the race to commercialize AI can’t be trusted to guarantee the safety of systems we don’t yet understand and that are prone to “chaotic or unpredictable behavior,” an artificial intelligence company executive told the first U.N. Security Council meeting on AI’s threats to global peace on Tuesday. Jack Clark, co-founder of the AI company Anthropic, said that’s why the world must come together to prevent the technology’s misuse. Clark, who says his company bends over backwards to train its AI chatbot to emphasize safety and caution, said the most...