IMF Urges Nations to Stay at Frontier of Mounting AI Risks

Governments and regulators must “stay at the frontier” of rising threats from artificial intelligence, a top official at the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday, as fears about the destructive potential of Anthropic PBC’s new models dominated conversations at the fund’s Spring Meetings.

AI is a “very powerful tool that can be used for good and for bad,” said Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor at the IMF. “Our advice is to really stay at the frontier of all of these threats and to be extremely proactive in terms of the policy frameworks relate to cyber security, but also relative to the operational readiness to act when necessary.”