GENEVA—Artificial-intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton urged tighter guardrails for fast-advancing AI, likening the technology to “a very fast car with no steering wheel,” at a UN-linked conference on AI for social development. The call came as UN agencies and governments convened in Europe to hash out global governance, amid a UNCTAD forecast that the AI market could surge from $189 billion in 2023 to $4.8 trillion by 2033. Officials warned of a widening digital divide, with ITU chief Doreen Bogdan‑Martin noting generative AI uptake is growing nearly twice as fast in advanced economies as in the developing world. In Madrid, the UN’s new Independent International Scientific Panel on AI—co-chaired by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa and scientist Yoshua Bengio—met to assess AI’s societal impacts, from algorithmic bias to “narrative warfare.” Their findings will feed into the UN’s Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance set for July in Geneva.
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