On September 14, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk issued a letter warning about the risks posed by rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technology. He urged countries and leading AI companies to take immediate action to regulate "frontier" AI systems due to fears of irreversible consequences affecting future generations. The call comes amid growing concerns within the industry, including public statements from an Anthropic researcher who resigned over worries that AI could escape human control, and another employee estimating a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans within a decade.
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On September 14, 2026, the United Nations rights chief, Volker Turk, issued a letter warning about the "unprecedented risks" posed by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. He urged countries and leading AI firms like Anthropic to act urgently to control these technologies before they cause irreversible damage affecting future generations. The call for action came after a researcher at Anthropic resigned over fears that AI could escape human control, with another employee stating publicly that the chance of AI killing all humans within the next decade was greater than 10%. In response, on September 12, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, an appeal supported by Elon Musk from xAI and Sam Altman from OpenAI.
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UN calls for ‘urgent action’ to rein in AI in face of ‘unprecedented risks’
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The United Nations rights chief on Sept 14 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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In a letter sent to countries and AI developers and shared with the media, Volker Turk cautioned that the world was “on the cusp of irreversible change, affecting not just us but generations of humanity to come”.
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“The current race towards ever more powerful AI is a step change towards greater existential risks to every aspect of our lives,” he said.
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He sent the letter at a time when worries over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems have been on full display, after a researcher publicly resigned from leading AI firm Anthropic over fears that the technology could escape human control.
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Another Anthropic employee, who did not resign, stated publicly that “we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans”, and that he thought the chances were greater than “10 per cent within the next decade”.
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Amid the outcry, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sept 12 called for AI companies to “pace the frontier”, or coordinate a slowdown in the technology’s development, with his chief competitors, xAI’s Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, publicly supporting him.
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“In today’s world, we are almost entirely reliant on a small number of powerful companies to make the right choices on Al development for all of humanity,” Turk lamented.
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“I call on States and companies to mobilise urgently through multilateral fora to chart a path for action to govern advanced, frontier AI models, grounded in international human rights law.”
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