Humanoid AI robot Ameca looks on at the booth of Engineered Arts company during the world's largest gathering of humanoid AI Robots as part of International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on July 5, 2023. Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffriniconference with the message: they could eventually run the world better than humans.
Asked about whether they might make better leaders, given humans’ capacity to make errors and misjudgements, Sophia, developed by Hanson Robotics, was clear: Chief of the UN’s International Telecommunication Union tech agency Doreen Bogdan-Martin said AI could end up in a nightmare scenario where millions of jobs are put at risk and unchecked advances lead to untold social unrest, geopolitical instability and economic disparity.