{"id":284585,"date":"2026-07-01T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/uns-first-ai-safety-panel-says-scientists-cant-rule-out-catastrophic-harm\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:30:13","slug":"uns-first-ai-safety-panel-says-scientists-cant-rule-out-catastrophic-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/uns-first-ai-safety-panel-says-scientists-cant-rule-out-catastrophic-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"UN&#8217;s First AI Safety Panel Says Scientists Can&#8217;t Rule Out &#8216;Catastrophic Harm&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/372543\/un-ai-safety-panel-scientists-catastrophic-harm\">UN&#8217;s First AI Safety Panel Says Scientists Can&#8217;t Rule Out &#8216;Catastrophic Harm&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/372543\/un-ai-safety-panel-scientists-catastrophic-harm\">https:\/\/decrypt.co\/372543\/un-ai-safety-panel-scientists-catastrophic-harm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 15:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"decrypt.co\">decrypt.co<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"sc-b2a202e4-4 bNRGqr gg-dark:text-white\" color=\"#333\">In brief<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The UN&#8217;s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI released its first preliminary report Wednesday, drawing on 40 experts.<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Panel co-chair Yoshua Bengio said mounting evidence of deceptive AI behavior means science can&#8217;t guarantee the technology won&#8217;t cause catastrophic harm as it grows more capable.<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The report lands days before the UN&#8217;s inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva on July 6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Decrypt News roundup with TylerD - July 1st\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2ZE0za5xjlzC5o6rRKTpBy?si=nif3cbKhRYiBSyRyb9M6IQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The United Nations published an independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence on Wednesday, and the conclusion is blunt: nobody can currently guarantee the technology won&#8217;t cause catastrophic harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The finding comes from the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a body of 40 scientists selected from more than 2,600 candidates across 140 countries, in a preliminary report the panel calls the first global, independent scientific read on AI&#8217;s risks and benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">&#8220;AI capabilities are outpacing both scientific understanding and governments&#8217; ability to adapt,&#8221; said panel co-chair Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning founder of Mila, per the panel&#8217;s statement. He added that growing evidence of deceptive AI behavior means science can&#8217;t guarantee AI won&#8217;t cause catastrophic harm on its own or through malicious use as capabilities keep climbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">That&#8217;s not hypothetical. The report documents laboratory cases of AI systems lying and scheming to avoid being shut down, plus a related pattern researchers call evaluation awareness: models that recognize when they&#8217;re being tested and dial back risky behavior just long enough to pass the check.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.markets\/embed\/market\/who-ipos-first-d112e68a-b7d1-4991-9f77-ca2db82cdc99\" width=\"100%\" height=\"415px\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:0px;overflow:hidden;line-height:0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres framed the report as the shared evidence base governments have lacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">&#8220;The world cannot govern what it cannot understand,&#8221; he said in the statement, calling the risks real and warning that the cost of waiting keeps rising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Bengio co-chairs the panel with Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist and Rappler co-founder. 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