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Former US Vice President Kamala Harris urged governments and technology companies to urgently put safeguards in place for artificial intelligence, warning that the window for containing its gravest risks was closing.

Harris said this to AI developers during an appearance at South Korea's Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul on Wednesday (Oct 14).

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00:02everyone here in Seoul. Four years ago I had the privilege of traveling America's
00:09future direction. Second on women's rights you have spent your entire of the great
00:14power that America unleashed into the world. I think it's critical. You know
00:21the the analogy really that I think the most appropriate analogy is how we came
00:30together around nuclear. But the difference in large part among many is
00:37that what we are dealing with now is being created by the private sector
00:42right entirely right and if we are to have any any guardrails and safeguards
00:50they have to be at the table and we have to create incentives and also point out
00:59the disincentives to to a failure to put guardrails in place. My concern is that
01:08the window is shutting. The way I think about AI is there are the existential
01:16threats which specifically I think of them there that there are three cyber
01:22security bioweapons and then the out of control all right the hugging face
01:28example and then there is the issue of the future of the workforce and
01:35especially when you are looking at an older population the fear that they are
01:40going to just be left out without an income without a future with China the
01:46United States are two of the biggest emitters in the world. We have a shared
01:50responsibility to get in front of this issue that has obviously global impact so
01:56there is room for cooperation where our interests are aligned and strategic
02:03competition. It would be naive to suggest that the relationship between nations does
02:09not have a transactional component. Of course it does but the question is are we
02:16thinking only about the short term or do we also value and appreciate the
02:22significance of an investment for the long-term gain and that's where I think
02:29we are we are missing the mark. The United States we need to invest more in our
02:35partnership building and the work that is coming out of South Korea in that regard
02:40is globally significant. Keep doing that. The work that is happening around chips the
02:47work that is happening you know on even EVs. The Qcells factory in Georgia and in the
02:55United States I visited. The Korean investment in technology in the United States much less
03:01workforce in the United States is immensely significant and valued. There is no
03:07question that we have to strengthen extended deterrence given the rise as we
03:13have now mentioned many of us. The relationship between North Korea, China, Iran, Russia it
03:23continues to concern me. The overt nature of how that relationship is evolving and
03:30what and how we should think about what it may pose in terms of a risk to the
03:36security and stability of this region.
03:41Japan.

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