Sir Demis said it was important to build “robust guardrails” against the most serious threats from the rise of autonomous systems.
He said the two main threats were the technology being used by “bad actors”, and the risk of losing control of systems as they become more powerful.
When asked whether he had the power to slow down the progress of the tech to give experts more time to work on its challenges, he said his firm had an important role to play, but was “only one player in the ecosystem”.
But he admitted keeping up with the pace of AI development was “the hard thing” for regulators.
Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, also called for “urgent regulation” in a speech at the AI Summit, while Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi said countries had to work together to benefit from AI.
However, the US has taken the opposite view. “As the Trump administration has now said many times: We totally reject global governance of AI,” said the head of the US delegation Michael Kratsios.
