UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly speedy advances in synthetic intelligence (AI) have triggered the query: is there a UN function for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Middle for AI Security, the New York Instances reported final week {that a} group of over 350 AI business leaders warned that synthetic intelligence poses a rising new hazard to humanity –and must be thought-about a “societal threat on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
In an announcement in its web site, OPENAI founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, together with chief government Sam Altman, say that to manage the dangers of AI programs, there must be “a world watchdog, much like the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (a Vienna-based UN company) that promotes the peaceable makes use of of nuclear vitality”.
“Given the potential of existential threat, we will’t simply be reactive,” they warned in a joint assertion final week.
The UN Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), which hosted greater than 40 ministers at an groundbreaking online meeting on Could 26, mentioned lower than 10 per cent of colleges and universities observe formal steering on utilizing wildly in style synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments, just like the chatbot software program ChatGPT.
Requested a few UN function in AI, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, former Underneath-Secretary-Normal and Excessive Consultant of the United Nations informed IPS UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres in his report titled Our Widespread Agenda (OCA) issued in September 2021 guarantees, “to work with Member States to determine an Emergency Platform to reply to complicated international crises.”
“The platform wouldn’t be a brand new everlasting or standing physique or establishment. It will be triggered routinely in crises of ample scale and magnitude, whatever the kind or nature of the disaster concerned.”
AI is undoubtedly certainly one of such “complicated international crises” and it’s excessive time now for the Secretary-Normal to formally share his considering on how he plans to handle the problem, mentioned Ambassador Chowdhury, founding father of the World Motion for The Tradition of Peace.
He identified that it is going to be too late for the Summit of the Future, convened by the Secretary-Normal in September 2024, to debate a world regulatory regime for AI below UN authority. In that timeframe, he argued, AI expertise would present itself in a manner that no international governance could be potential.
Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Belief and the Transitional Working Group on AI, informed IPS the purpose in regards to the UN and AI is that AI desperately wants international governance and the UN is the pure house of such governance.
At current, he identified, the UN is getting ready a World Digital Compact or approval in September 2024 which ought to embrace Synthetic Intelligence.
”However in actuality, the UN is hardly on the beginning block on AI governance, whereas the Council of Europe, the place I’m for the time being, is deep in its negotiation of a Framework Conference for AI,” mentioned Whitfield, who can be chair of the World Federalist Motion/Institute of World Coverage.
The Council of Europe’s work is proscribed to the affect on human rights, democracy, and rule of legislation – however these are wide-ranging points.
While participation in Council of Europe Treaties is way wider than the European Union, with different nations being welcomed as signatories, he mentioned, it’s not really international in scope and any UN settlement will be anticipated to be extra broadly primarily based.
“The important thing benefit of the UN is that it will search to incorporate all nations, together with Russia and China, arguably the nation with the strongest AI sector on this planet”, Whitfield mentioned.
One can envisage subsequently a two-step course of:
- • An preliminary worldwide settlement inside the Council of Europe rising to begin with, following the finalization of the EU AI Act
• And a world UN Framework Conference on Synthetic Intelligence being developed later, maybe following the institution of a multi-stakeholder discussion board on AI governance. Such a Conference may nicely embrace the institution of an company equal to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company as known as for many just lately by the Elders.
Andreas Bummel, Government Director, Democracy With out Borders, informed IPS: “UN governance of AI ought to transcend the same old intergovernmental mechanisms and provides citizen-elected representatives a key function by a world parliamentary physique”.
The scope of such a parliamentary meeting might be expanded to different points and improve the UN’s inclusive and consultant character not simply within the area of AI, he added.
As generative AI reshapes the worldwide dialog on the affect of synthetic intelligence, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s specialised company for info and communication applied sciences, will host the 2023 “AI for Good World Summit” July 6-7 in Geneva.
The 2-day occasion will showcase AI and robotic expertise as a part of a world dialogue on how synthetic intelligence and robotics can function forces for good, and assist the UN’s Sustainable Growth Objectives, based on ITU.
https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
The occasion will host the UN’s first robotic press convention, that includes a Q&A with registered journalists. Total, greater than 40 robots specialised for humanitarian and improvement duties might be on show alongside occasions with business executives, authorities officers, and thought leaders on AI and tech.
In the meantime, a gaggle of UN-appointed human rights specialists warn that AI-powered adware and disinformation is on the rise, and regulation of the house has change into pressing.
In an announcement June 2, the specialists mentioned that rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence-based biometric surveillance programs, are more and more getting used “in delicate contexts”, with out people’ data or consent.
“Pressing and strict regulatory crimson strains are wanted for applied sciences that declare to carry out emotion or gender recognition,” mentioned the specialists, together with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Particular Rapporteur on “the promotion and safety of human rights whereas countering terrorism”.
The specialists, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, condemned the already “alarming” use and impacts of adware and surveillance applied sciences on the work of human rights defenders and journalists, “typically below the guise of nationwide safety and counter-terrorism measures”.
They’ve additionally known as for regulation to handle the lightning-fast improvement of generative AI that’s enabling mass manufacturing of faux on-line content material which spreads disinformation and hate speech.
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