The Secretary-General of the United Nations warned on Monday that the development speed of artificial intelligence has become too fast to keep up. He called for the introduction of unified and coordinated regulatory rules around the world to reduce the potential risks caused by artificial intelligence, especially for children.
Antonio Guterres told delegates at the first government-level Global Artificial Intelligence Dialogue held in Geneva: “This technology can reshape the economy, change the workplace, influence election results, and upend the balance of security forces, but its implementation is so fast that no one can keep up, even those who develop this technology.”
Guterres told delegates: "Innovation requires the establishment of constraint boundaries... If artificial intelligence is to unleash its powerful capabilities, it must be effectively governed."
The goal of this two-day first United Nations Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Dialogue held in Geneva is not to draft an international treaty, but to explore how to formulate relevant rules, both to mitigate the possible harms caused by artificial intelligence and to fully seize its development opportunities.
Representatives attending the meeting will review a report issued by an independent scientific expert group composed of 40 experts supported by the United Nations. The expert group will release the research conclusions of the world's first independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence.
The United Nations plans to launch a more comprehensive report next year and host the second Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in New York.
