AI & Technology

A panel organized by the United Nations highlighted the difficulty of regulating a technology that grows and changes at a rapid pace Advances in artificial intelligence are outpacing scientific knowledge and government policy, meaning there are no guarantees that the technology will not cause catastrophic harm, an independent United Nations panel warned on Wednesday (1st). A preliminary report from the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence stated that policymakers face a growing dilemma: they need robust evidence to regulate AI effectively, but that evidence struggles to keep up with the technology's rapid evolution.