New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- SoftBank Group Corp. chief Masayoshi Son - one of AI's fervent believers - said that even he's worried about safety risks as machines quickly gain more abilities.

An exponential surge in AI capabilities makes it imperative for countries to build trust so that they can harness the technology together, Son said at an event on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto on Sunday. He was speaking alongside White House science and tech policy advisor Michael Kratsios.

"We don't have any more luxury of having human fight against human," Son said, adding that countries need to work together to control the far greater threat from powerful AI models. Superintelligence in the wrong hands can become ...