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(ANSA-AFP) – GENEVA, MAY 31 – Humanity is in a race towards time to take advantage of the colossal energy of synthetic intelligence for the great of all, avoiding horrible dangers in view of the “greatest election yr in historical past” . That is the opinion of Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the United Nations Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU) on the opening of the worldwide AI for Good summit in Geneva. “We have now let the genie out of the bottle, now we’re in a race towards time however it’s important to make it secure”, she added. The hundreds of individuals gathered on the convention heard how advances in generative synthetic intelligence are already accelerating efforts to resolve a number of the world’s most urgent issues, equivalent to local weather change, starvation and social welfare. “I imagine we have now a singular alternative to drive synthetic intelligence for the advantage of all of the individuals of the world,” underlined Bogdan-Martin, recalling nevertheless {that a} third of humanity nonetheless stays utterly offline and is “excluded from the AI revolution “. For the ITU president, it’s important to safe this know-how in view of the “greatest election yr in historical past”, with elections in dozens of nations, together with the USA. Bogdan-Martin then flagged “the rise of subtle deepfake disinformation campaigns” and warned that “the misuse of synthetic intelligence threatens democracy, additionally endangers the psychological well being of younger individuals and compromises cybersecurity.” “We do not know the way society and this know-how will evolve,” added Bogdan-Martin, praising governments and the EU which have not too long ago established “protections” and laws on using synthetic intelligence. “It’s our accountability to put in writing the following chapter within the nice story of humanity and know-how and make it secure, inclusive and sustainable,” she concluded. (ANSA-AFP).
2024-05-31 19:37:16