August 16, 2026

ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance

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ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era non-proliferation agreements that kept the world safe from nucl...