{"id":64764,"date":"2024-06-07T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/ai-nuclear-war-threat-un-secretary-general"},"modified":"2024-06-07T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:00:18","slug":"guterres-warns-humanity-on-knifes-edge-as-ai-raises-nuclear-war-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64764","title":{"rendered":"Guterres warns humanity on \u2018knife\u2019s edge\u2019 as AI raises nuclear war threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN secretary general makes plea for nuclear states to agree on mutual pledge not to be first to use nuclear weapons<\/p>\n<p>The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has warned that the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> technology multiplies the threat of nuclear war, and that humanity is now \u201con a knife\u2019s edge\u201d as dangers to its existence coalesce.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres\u2019s warning is due to be shown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/2024AnnualMeeting\/UNSG-Remarks\">a recorded video<\/a> to be played on Friday morning at the annual meeting of the US Arms Control Association (ACA) in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/07\/ai-nuclear-war-threat-un-secretary-general\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN secretary general makes plea for nuclear states to agree on mutual pledge not to be first to use nuclear weaponsThe UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, has warned that the spread of artificial intelligence technology multiplies the threat of nuc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,441,419,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64764\/revisions\/64765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}