US President Donald Trump and UN Secretary-General António Guterres offered conflicting visions for how the world should manage artificial intelligence at the UN on Tuesday. Armed with a new UN science report that warns of a slight but real potential of catastrophic and irreversible harm, Guterres kicked off the parade of world leaders speaking at the General Assembly by calling for more oversight of AI, warning in vivid if not ominous terms of what could go wrong. Killer robots must have no place in our future,” the UN chief said in his farewell address to world leaders.
He also warned about AI in his first General Assembly address a decade ago. With Guterres saying the world needs to “advance the conditions for the responsible pacing of AI and the additional safeguards needed to address risks,” the UN Security Council on Wednesday will address how to place some kind of controls on the technology and it will feature some of the biggest names in the field. Less than an hour later, Trump was having none of that.
Now here and after officially called super intelligence, changing the name,” he said. World leaders speaking after Trump used “artificial intelligence” — not “super.” “Every major new technology brings challenges, and superintelligence is no exception," Trump said. There shouldn’t be ‘sides’ on whether we need adequate control over powerful autonomous systems.
The interesting debate is over what mechanisms actually provide that control.” Other nations want to make sure they are not left behind during an AI race between the US and China, which Trump said America is winning. French President Emmanuel Macron and Guterres also made the issue about protecting children. "We must act now to protect our children and our young people.” Finland President Alexander Stubb said AI will change the world, potentially for good, but needs strong controls.
It will impact science, the economy, politics, security and the very essence of our humanity," Stubb said. We can compete, cooperate or slow down. For me, cooperation is the best way forward.” British Prime Minister Andy Burnham told a meeting of business leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that he wants to see “a single set of global principles and standards” that can unlock AI’s potential while mitigating its risks.
He said forging “AI for good” will be the main focus of the UK’s presidency of the G20 group of nations next year. At Wednesday's Security Council AI meeting, the UN is hearing from the people in building these AI systems, as well as those who have recently sounded the alarm about the need for guardrails. Taking the podium are Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, followed by Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and finally Clément Delangue, the CEO of and co-founder of Hugging Face, which was hacked by a rogue OpenAI program.
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