Who gets to govern AI? U.N. panel warns access alone is not enough

A new United Nations scientific assessment warns that artificial intelligence risks creating a new form of global inequality in which countries gain access to powerful technologies while losing influence over how those technologies are developed, governed and deployed.

The warning comes in the first preliminary report issued on Wednesday by the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a group of 40 experts established by the U.N. General Assembly to provide scientific assessments of AI’s opportunities, risks and impacts.

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