United Nations adopts first global artificial intelligence resolution
In a massive achievement for India, at the United Nations General Assembly, all 193 countries joined together to adopt a landmark resolution backed by India to keep the world safe from the excesses of artificial intelligence (AI).
On Thursday the UNGA resolution passed unanimously stressed “the urgency of achieving global consensus on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems” in the face of “potential risk for accidents and compound threats from malicious actors”.
The resolution emphasizes the role of AI in promoting global development while making sure it protects private data and human rights and is tested for vulnerabilities before deployment.
The resolution, which calls for the development of regulations for “safe, secure and trustworthy” AI systems, also acknowledges the importance of domestic priorities and national and “subnational” policies in framing them.
The unanimity at the UN stresses the fears over AI’s potential to disrupt politics and society through deepfakes and spreading misinformation, and its more sinister capabilities in warfare, development of weapons, and disrupting economies.
The resolution calls for measures to “promote innovation for the internationally interoperable identification, classification, evaluation, testing, prevention and mitigation of vulnerabilities and risks during the design and development and prior to the deployment and use of artificial intelligence systems”.
For wider acceptance and tamping down dissidence, the resolution highlights AI’s role in helping developing nations, especially the poorest, and calls for bridging the digital divide among and within nations that AI could widen.
An important goal of the resolution is deploying AI for “achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — with specific consideration of developing countries and leaving no one behind”.
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Great achievement.