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Kristalina Georgieva

Managing director, IMF

Worried, week of Oct 12

Capability 4Outlook 3

1 statement over 1 week, last scored in Week 42, last spoke Oct 15.

Where they stand

Against all 33 people scored in Week 44. Bars count people at each score; black is Georgieva, the dashed line is the average. Their marker is their Week 42 score.

What they've said

• Thursday, Oct 15Week 42

  On the IMF and World Bank panel in Bangkok, Georgieva said If there are no safeguards, then the risks may exceed the opportunities and We are racing, and the question is how do we put barriers? So if a car was to fly out it doesn't kill people.

  The IMF managing director framed AI as a race car without barriers for the spectators, adding You may give us the biggest gift, but if the car runs over people, that gift may not be so worthwhile. She also said we do need an ethical foundation, and I'm not sure we are there as a society. Jack Clark, on the same panel, answered that it was worse than you describe.

  Details and sources

  Same panel and date reasoning as Jack Clark's entry: held Friday in Bangkok, filed under Oct 15 Mountain Time. Reuters paraphrases her as favouring industry self-regulation with society engaged, since governments are poorly placed to oversee a fast-moving sector; that is paraphrase, not quote. US Treasury undersecretary Erin Browne reportedly pushed back that the IMF dwells on downside risks, with no direct quote found. Found on the Oct 16 sweep and added to Oct 15.

  KSAT (AP), Fox News