UN resolution on artificial intelligence passed unanimously

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25.03.2024
The UN General Assembly resolution, adopted on March 21, is aimed at ensuring AI safety. It is not binding, but it is still very important, reports ZDNet .

The rise of generative AI has shown the world the enormous potential of this technology to help people in many ways, but it has also exposed its dangers. The technology has already caused data leaks, copyright infringement lawsuits, harmful deepfakes, and more, highlighting the urgent need to regulate its safety.

The resolution, which was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly, was proposed by the US and supported by more than 120 member states. As a result, all 193 UN member states agreed to adopt it. It calls for the design, development and deployment of AI to be “safe, secure and trustworthy.”

The text of the resolution acknowledges both the panama mobile database and the dangers of AI. If used correctly, some of the potential benefits listed in the resolution include accelerating the achievement of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, promoting digital transformation and peace, bridging the digital divide within countries, and more.

The malicious “design, development and deployment” of AI systems could have disastrous consequences, including undermining sustainable economic, social and environmental development, widening the digital divide, exacerbating biases that contribute to discrimination, and more. In this regard, the resolution emphasizes the urgent need to achieve “a global consensus on safe, reliable and trustworthy AI systems…”.