U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster” that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned — even as some leaders played up its promise.

“The Emirati minister spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday and said that the UAE was the US’s No. 1 commerce partner within the Gulf Cooperation Council, with a bilateral trade of $40 billion annually,” Arab News reported.