COPENHAGEN – As AI tools have entered more areas of our professional and personal lives, praise for their potential has been accompanied by concerns about their built-in biases, the inequalities they perpetuate, and the vast amounts of energy and water they consume. But now, an even more harmful development is underway: as AI agents are deployed to solve tasks autonomously, they will introduce many new risks, not least to our fragile democracies.
Although AI-generated misinformation is already a huge problem, we have failed to comprehend, let alone control, this rapidly evolving technology. Part of the problem (more so in some parts of the world than in others) is that the companies pushing AI agents have taken pains to divert citizens’ and regulators’ attention from potential harms.
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