UN Human Rights Chief Türk calls for accelerating AI regulation at the Oxford AI and Human Rights Summit

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Türk warned at the Oxford AI and Human Rights Summit that "the clock is ticking on AI regulation," calling on countries to implement mandatory human rights safeguards and due diligence in AI development and use, and to prohibit machines from deciding matters of life and death. He mentioned that the New York City Council is considering 10 AI regulation bills, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta testifying; 29 countries and the EU jointly called for tighter controls on frontier AI models, but the voluntary agreement signed by Trump and six AI companies is not punitive.