His remarks at the assembly's annual meeting of world leaders previewed an AI safety summit that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is convening in November.
Dowden's speech also came as other countries and multinational groups — including the European Union, the bloc that Britain left in 2020 — are making moves on artificial intelligence.
The U.N., meanwhile, is pulling together an advisory board to make recommendations on structuring international rules for artificial intelligence.
Political Cartoons View All 1176 ImagesMajor U.S. tech companies have acknowledged a need for AI regulations, though their ideas on the particulars vary.
Inexorable,” Dowden said, and the technology will test the international community “to show that it can work together on a question that will help to define the fate of humanity.”
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