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Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Modernization of the State said that effective international oversight of artificial intelligence requires the participation of the United States and China, and that Berlin will raise the issue at the Group of Seven level. The position comes amid divisions over calls to slow model development and subject it to independent oversight.
Officials and researchers warned during a session in the British Parliament that superintelligent artificial intelligence could pose a danger on the scale of nuclear weapons or exceed it, while politicians called for an international treaty to regulate its development. Experts countering these warnings argue that focusing on human-extinction scenarios could distract from current risks such as disinformation, jobs, and environmental impact.