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Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We’re publishing these editions both as stories on Time.com and as emails. It was a busy week for our team: Tharin Pillay was on site during the UN General Assembly in New York, while Harry Booth and Nikita Ostrovsky were at the “All In AI” event in Montreal.
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What to Know: The UN Takes On AI
AI takes the podium — The United Nations General Assembly met this week in New York. While the assembly members spent much of their time on the crises in Palestine and Sudan, they also devoted a good chunk to AI. On Monday, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa called attention to a campaign for “AI Red Lines,” imploring governments to come together to “prevent universally unacceptable risks” from AI. Over 200 prominent politicians and scientists, including 10 Nobel Prize winners, signed onto the statement.
“A new curtain”— On Wednesday, the Security Council engaged in an open debate on “artificial intelligence and international peace and security.” Over three hours, each country took turns delivering roughly the same spiel: That AI held the promise for both good and harm. Over and over, representatives declared that AI was not sci-fi but a fact of modern life, and that international regulatory guardrails needed to be developed immediately, especially around autonomous weapons and nuclear.
One of the most interesting perspectives came from Belarus, which called attention to the growing global inequities in AI development. “There is a new curtain being created, not ideological this time, but technological … to divide the West and the other part of the world, and to bring the global majority countries into an era of neocolonialism,” the representative said. “This is leading to a deadlock and abyss. AI should be available and accessible to…
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