United Nations Creates Advisory Body To Address AI Governance

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the creation of a 39-member advisory body to address issues in the international governance of artificial intelligence. From a report: Members include tech company executives, government officials from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and academics from countries such as the U.S., Russia and Japan. Sony Chief Technology Officer Hiroaki Kitano, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and Microsoft Chief Responsible AI Officer Natasha Crampton are among the executives representing technology companies.

Representatives also come from six continents with diverse backgrounds ranging from U.S.-based AI expert Vilas Dhar to Professor Yi Zeng fom China and Egyptian lawyer Mohamed Farahat. "The transformative potential of AI for good is difficult even to grasp," Guterres said in a statement. "And without entering into a host of doomsday scenarios, it is already clear that the malicious use of AI could undermine trust in institutions, weaken social cohesion and threaten democracy itself," he said.

A Brief History of UN Governance Boards

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1. United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Criticism: Accused of bias against Israel and failing to address human rights abuses in other countries.
2. UN Peacebuilding Commission Criticism: Ineffectiveness in coordinating peacebuilding efforts, as seen in cases like Sierra Leone and Burundi.
3. UN Security Council Criticism: Failure to intervene effectively in conflicts like Syria, veto power imbalance.
4. UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Criticism: Mishandling of sexual harassment allegations

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For the record, to all the trolls who are downvoting the comments in this section, speak up! Why are you hiding behind the downvote button? What's your beef with what we are saying?

These dipshits

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can't even agree that Russia invading Ukraine was wrong and they shouldn't have done it. You really think they'll come up with meaningful advice on something as new and complex as AI?

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Because Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council, or for another reason?

China will ignore all regulation.

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The idea that "regulation" of AI will protect against AI is foolish, given that the worst countries (China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc) are the ones most likely to ignore such regulation. In that context, excess regulation is just handing the AI lead to our enemies.