{
  "id": 9069828,
  "title": "UN AI experts warn against 'apocalyptic' rhetoric on risks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/un-ai-experts-warn-against-apocalyptic-rhetoric-on-risks-9069828",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-22T02:44:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/un-ai-experts-warn-against-apocalyptic-rhetoric-on-risks/articleshow/134400782.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Experts on a United Nations artificial intelligence committee have warned against using apocalyptic rhetoric when discussing AI risks. According to Yoshua Bengio, a co-chair of the panel and one of the fathers of AI, it is essential to distinguish between what scientists know about AI risks and what can only be plausibly extrapolated.\n\nJoelle Barral, an executive at Google DeepMind and a member of the International Scientific Panel on AI, emphasized the importance of investing in science to understand AI risks, rather than investing in fear. Her comments were in response to recent public statements on AI's potential dangers, including those made by Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee who said AI developers believed the technology could kill people by the end of the decade.\n\nNobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa also spoke out, calling for a change in the way AI risk is discussed, as it is often portrayed as either an existential threat or something that does not matter. The experts made these comments at an event held in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/uns-ai-experts-warn-against-apocalyptic-rhetoric-on-risks",
        "published": "2026-09-22T01:36:03.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "UN AI experts warn against 'apocalyptic' rhetoric on risks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/un-ai-experts-warn-against-apocalyptic-rhetoric-on-risks",
        "published": "2026-09-22T01:47:16.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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