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IBL News | New York
As part of its General Assembly last week, the United Nations (UN) announced a plan to establish a global forum for discussing AI governance, aiming to gather ideas and best practices.
The UN plans to form a 40-member panel of scientific experts to synthesize and analyze the research on AI risks and opportunities.
The UN follows the pattern of previous similar efforts on climate change and nuclear policy.
To launch the initiative, dozens of U.N. member nations, along with tech companies, academics, and nonprofits, spent last week summarizing their hopes and concerns about AI.
This program is an effort to ensure that control of the AI is not left in the hands of a few tech companies and countries, as the United States and China.
The UN highlighted its hope that AI can cure diseases, expand food production, and accelerate learning.
It also identified risks, including mass surveillance, the spread of misinformation, the depletion of energy resources, and widening income gaps among individuals and nations.
