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Be extremely careful with the machines.
Technology leaders pressed the United Nations this week, AFP reported, as the General Assembly met in New York.
The Rocket News · Science Desk · New YorkSeptember 23, 2026 · 3 min read
NEW YORK — La Jornada, citing AFP, reported Thursday that technology leaders have urged the United Nations to treat artificial intelligence with extreme care. The note ran on the paper’s science front, on the week the 81st General Assembly is meeting in New York.
The warning is not a treaty. It is a request, filed while presidents are in the hall for other fights: war, trade, and the border. The Technology desk files it as the one technology note the Mexican pages treated as news this morning.
No list of signers was printed in the short item. The sentence was the news: extreme care, asked of an institution Sheinbaum, the same morning, called overwhelmed.
Wire and further reading: jornada.com.mx
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