Rise of the robots: UN tries to tackle ‘mind-blowing’ growth of AI

AI robot frontwoman ‘Desdemona’ by Hanson Robotics performs during the world's largest gathering of humanoid AI Robots as part of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on July 5, 2023. The United Nations is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence and to harness its potential for empowering humanity, hoping to lay out a clear blueprint on the way forward for handling AI, as development of the technology races ahead the capacity to set its boundaries. — AFP

GENEVA: The mind-blowing growth of artificial intelligence poses many questions that have no answers yet, the United Nations admitted on July 6 at its AI summit, attended by some exceptionally life-like humanoid robots.

The UN is aware that AI technology is racing ahead of the capacity to set its boundaries and directions, and so it brought together some of the best minds on the topic – whether human or man-made.