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What the U.N.’s AI Advisory Group Will Do
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10/26/2023
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled Thursday a new advisory body dedicated to developing consensus around the risks posed by artificial intelligence and how international cooperation can help meet those challenges.
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Good morning. Today I am launching my high-level multi-stakeholder advisory body on artificial
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intelligence. The last year has seen an extraordinary advance in the capabilities and use of artificial
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intelligence through chatbots, voice cloning, image generations, video apps, and more. In
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our challenging times, AI could power extraordinary progress for humanity, from predicting and
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addressing crises to rolling out public health services and education services. AI could
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scale up and amplify the work of governments, civil society, and the United Nations across
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the board. For developing economies, AI offers the possibility of leapfrogging outdated technologies
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and bringing services directly to people where needs are bigger and for the people that need
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them most. The transformative potential of AI for good is difficult even to grasp. And
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we are in urgent need of this enabler and accelerator, as many countries are already
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reeling from the impact of the climate crisis, the 2030 agenda, our global blueprint for
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peace and prosperity on a healthy planet is in deep trouble, and AI could help to turn
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that around. It could supercharge climate action and efforts to achieve the 17 Sustainable
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Development Goals by 2030. But all this depends on AI technologies being harnessed responsibly
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and made accessible to all, including the developing countries that need them most.
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To a succinct extent, AI expertise is concentrated in a handful of companies and countries. And
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this could deepen global inequalities and turn digital divides into chasms. The potential
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harms of AI extend to serious concerns over misinformation and disinformation, the entrenching
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of bias and discrimination, surveillance and the invasion of privacy, fraud and other
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violations of human rights. And without entering into a host of doomsday scenarios, it is already
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clear that the malicious use of AI could undermine trust in institutions, weaken social cohesion
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and threaten democracy itself. For all these reasons, I have called for a global multidisciplinary,
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multistakeholder conversation on the governance of AI so that its benefits to humanity, all
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of humanity are maximized and the risks contained are diminished. This advisory body is the
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starting point. And this group will work independently, guided by some basic principles. The advisory
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body efforts will be inclusive and based on the universal values enshrined in the United
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Nations Charter. It will consider how we can link various AI governance initiatives that
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are already underway and it will work fast because we are against the clock.
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