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UN Calls for Urgent Action to Rein in AI Risks

Volker Türk warns a few AI firms control development and says frontier models pose unprecedented risks to humanity.

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The United Nations rights chief has called for countries and "frontier" artificial intelligence companies to act urgently to rein in a technology he warned posed "unprecedented risks".

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Today, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, renewed his call for "emergency action" to curb highly sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques, warning that this technology carries "unprecedented risks."

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on "States and businesses to mobilize urgently in multilateral forums to define a course of action to guide state-of-the-art AI models".

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Illustration - AFP The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Monday for an "emergency action" to frame artificial intelligence (AI) in the face of the "unprecedented risks" posed by the most advanced systems. "J has called on states and businesses to mobilize urgently in multilateral forums to define a course of action to frame the state-of-the-art models of AI," said Volker Türk in a statement, warning that "all human rights are threa…

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United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called on countries and leading AI companies to take urgent action on "meaningful AI governance" due to its accelerating development and the unique risks it poses to human rights.

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Perfil broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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