AI is one of the most important areas of human development – and despite the need for global governance, it's "being weaponized very rapidly."⁣ ⁣ So says Jeffrey Sachs, a public policy analyst and former Senior UN advisor, as leaders in the field gather at the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. ⁣ ⁣ "Unfortunately, every big tech company in the United States partners closely with the Pentagon these days. And that means that governance is not going to be global," he explains.⁣ ⁣ "I don't really foresee the United States and China working out arrangements on AI governance any time soon given the intensity of the competition," he continues, saying that the US is "not really in much of a cooperative mood – it's trying to corral allies or incentivize countries to become allies. ⁣ ⁣ "China has a very different approach, which is open source: 'Come join us, we give away the key so-called weights of our models so that you can use them freely.' So, it's a very different...