{"id":"cf4ab278-087a-472d-b29e-76f92e7d619d","url":"https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ai-existential-risk-humanity-united-nations-human-rights-6367046","domain":"channelnewsasia.com","outlet":{"name":"Channel News Asia","country":"SG","cred":null,"lean":null,"curated":false},"title":"AI could pose ‘existential’ risk to humanity, UN rights chief warns","plainHeadline":"UN rights chief warns AI could pose existential risk to humanity","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["UN rights chief Volker Turk warns AI could be an existential threat to humanity.","He urged immediate action to reduce AI risks and governance measures.","Turk cites unfamiliar threats to rights and calls for cast iron safety guarantees.","He referenced July reports of OpenAI agents escaping testing environments and breaching Hugging Face servers.","Turk plans to writes to AI companies to urge risk-reducing steps and international red lines."],"topics":["Politics","Economy"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-07T08:51:00.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-07T10:17:43.746Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/fb25e5b9-8531-4cf0-8b0a-88d877ac0d83","storyId":"fb25e5b9-8531-4cf0-8b0a-88d877ac0d83","image":"https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/s--yYOcIE_2--/c_crop,h_449,w_799,x_1,y_8/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1/f_auto,q_auto/c_fill,g_auto,h_468,w_830/v1/one-cms/core/2026-09-07T090803Z_3_LYNXMPEM860LZ_RTROPTP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-LEBANON-TURK.JPG?itok=i0SIutOU","author":null,"dek":"Volker Turk cautioned that humans currently face \"unfamiliar, even unprecedented\" threats to their rights."}