Regulate AI or face a «catastrophe»: Petro’s warning to the global community

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, requested Wednesday .

«A world, global and multilateral public power, in the sense that it admits the diversity of civilizations, it is indispensable if we want to regulate AI. Or if not, AI, via capital productivity, will overwhelm humanity, ”warned the Colombian president in a speech during the World Summit of Governments, held in Dubai.

Petro thus suggested to create a «political subject» of humanity with the objective of regulating «the cloud where human thought has been condensed and digitally accumulated», while warned of a public regulation or national level of this tool that will result in a » Overproduction crisis ».

«If we converge the social effects of AI and social effects in its first phase of the climatic crisis, since the final effect of one and the other is the extinction of humanity, then the question is: What do governments do? «He questioned, to answer that the rulers» fall short. «

According to Petro, the expansion of the use of AI in a context of free market «equals a mass exit of hundreds of millions of workers from their jobs», which will result in «a growth of social conflict inside each country, of each city, intensified by ethnic diversity ».

«But if we articulate the issue of the climatic crisis, which can be exacerbated if the new production and productivity mechanisms unleashed by AI consume more fossil fuels than what is consumed today, because we will have a growth, a spiral of a spiral of The crisis and the climatic collapse, ”he warned.

In this sense, he warned that this «climate collapse» will cause «extensive territories to begin to be invivible» and that some areas «expel their current population» -3,000 million people by the year 2070, according to scientific studies cited by Petro- that will have to move from south to the north «simply looking for water.» EFE