Humanity in ‘race against time’ on AI: UN

GENEVA – Humanity is in a race against time to harness the colossal emerging power of artificial intelligence for the good of all, while averting dire risks, a top UN official said Thursday.”We’ve let the genie out of the bottle,” said Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU).”We are in a race against time,” she told the opening of a two-day AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva. “Recent developments in AI have been nothing short of extraordinary.” The thousands gathered at the conference heard how advances in generative AI are already…