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UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk and AI researcher Jacob Koxon have warned that unchecked development of powerful, self-improving AI systems by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic could pose existential threats to humanity. Both call for urgent, enforceable safeguards and international cooperation to regulate AI before irreversible harm occurs.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event involves AI systems in development and their potential misuse or malfunction leading to catastrophic harm (human extinction). The article does not describe any realized harm but discusses credible expert warnings about plausible future harm from AI systems. Therefore, it fits the definition of an AI Hazard, as it concerns events and circumstances where AI development and use could plausibly lead to an AI Incident (mass human harm). There is no indication of an actual incident or complementary information about responses; the focus is on the hazard posed by future AI capabilities.[AI generated]