UN tech envoy: AI is not an uncontrollable force — it's built by humans and can be controlled by humans
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-22
Gary Marcus quotes Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN's under secretary general and special envoy for emerging technologies, in the NYT: "We talk about A.I. as though it were a weather event, a storm, but A.I. is not an uncontrollable force of nature — it is built by humans and it can be controlled by humans." A governance-level pushback against AI fatalism.
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