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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people -- in the form of somehow regulating the burgeoning technology that they have been designing.
"If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: "We could lose control of the future to AI."
Both said the countries of the world, through the U.N. Security Council, where they testified Wednesday, have to set safeguards of some kind.
They also called for the world to make sure that the power of AI isn't concentrated in one company or country. They said that as they also touted the benefits of the technology for bettering humanity and what Altman called "giving people more power over their own lives."
Those tech leaders "are telling us in stark terms that it cannot be left to them to prevent disaster from befalling the world," said United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.