More than 200 political and scientific leaders—including 10 Nobel laureates and AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio—called for a binding international accord to set “red lines” on artificial intelligence, unveiling the initiative at the U.N. General Assembly’s High-Level Week. The letter warns that rapid advances in AI could fuel mass unemployment, engineered pandemics and systemic rights abuses, and suggests prohibitions on lethal autonomous weapons, self-replicating systems and AI involvement in nuclear warfare. Backers argue voluntary industry pledges have fallen short, citing research that firms have met only about half their commitments, and urge governments to finalize an agreement by end-2026. The push coincides with the U.N.’s move to stand up a diplomatic AI body and follows earlier warnings from tech leaders about AI’s existential risks.
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