Martin Wolf Urges Global AI Rules as 1 in 4 Workers Faces Exposure
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Updated · Financial Times · Jun 17
Martin Wolf Urges Global AI Rules as 1 in 4 Workers Faces Exposure
1 articles · Updated · Financial Times · Jun 17
Summary
Martin Wolf argues governments must urgently build a global regime to test, control and assign liability for AI before the technology causes existential, political and economic damage.
Anthropic’s warning that AI systems are increasingly helping develop their own successors underscores his case that market competition and the US-China race will not deliver voluntary restraint.
Wolf says humans must remain legally accountable for AI-driven decisions, especially in war and biological research, with company owners, managers and officials exposed to civil and criminal penalties.
Labour risks remain uncertain: the ILO says 1 in 4 workers is in an occupation exposed to generative AI, though only 3.3% of global employment is in the highest-exposure category.
He argues the longer-term threat is concentrated wealth and power, rising inequality and a possible erosion of democracy unless AI gains are shared and the US, China and EU help set global rules.