Amal Clooney stood at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens on Monday and called for the reunion of the Parthenon Sculpt...

Amal Clooney stood at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens on Monday and called for the reunion of the Parthenon Sculptures, saying she hopes the next time she visits Greece, the marbles will already be back. "As a British lawyer looking at the Parthenon right now, I hope to see a cultural exchange between Great Britain and Greece soon, and the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures," Clooney said. She added that she hopes not to wait another 12 years before returning to Athens, and that when she does, the sculptures will be here "in common view." Clooney was in Athens for the first-ever UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors meeting held outside the organization's Paris headquarters. The event was organized on the initiative of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the Protection and Promotion of Culture, Kostanza Smpoku-Konstantakopoulou, and was prefaced by UNESCO Director-General Khaled El Ananyan, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, and UNESCO's Director of Goodwill Ambassadors Program, Nada Al Hassan. The discussion, moderated by Economist journalist Alasdair Ross, centered on AI's interaction with culture. Clooney said she believes AI can bring real progress in fields like medicine, but noted she is watching the warnings closely. She pointed to former Anthropic employees who have not ruled out the possibility that AI could pose an existential threat, saying the calls for more regulation from the people who designed this technology deserve to be taken seriously. On the practical side, Clooney highlighted her Clooney Foundation for Justice's TrialWatch program, launched in 2019, which monitors criminal trials globally, including those of journalists prosecuted for exercising free speech. She also announced the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, a collaboration with Oxford University using AI to advance legal rights worldwide. Smpoku-Konstantakopoulou raised concerns about homogenization and AI's impact on creative authenticity, and stressed that AI scientists should be trained in history, ethics, and philosophy. "Technology cannot make you feel emotions," she said, describing the humbling experience of standing before an ancient monument as something no techn...