UN chief warns on AI, urges global cooperation

In a farewell speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that climate crisis, runaway AI and worsening inequality are existential threats, with power shifting from governments to a few private firms and to machines, and urged leaders to avoid the world splitting into two rival blocs.

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