The UN General Assembly created a group of scientific experts on artificial intelligence (AI) on Tuesday, August 26, who will be in charge of supporting the international community in order to make informed decisions regarding this sensitive subject.
The group will analyze your promises and risks. PHOTO LINDINDIN DMS
This is a Giec similar group in the field of climate, AFP informs, quoted by Agerpres.
UN Member States are concerned about the rapid development of revolutionary technologies that could threaten human democracy and rights, which is why they made their commitment in September last year, through “The pact for the future”to create such a group of experts, in charge of facilitating international dialogue between governments and other actors in this field.
By a resolution adopted on Tuesday, the General Assembly created this “Independent international scientific group on artificial intelligence ”, to provide “Evidence -founded scientific assessments, through which the existing studies on the promises, risks and repercussions of artificial intelligence will be synthesized and analyzed..
“Crucial point between the peak research in the field of AI and the elaboration of policies”
The document states that the annual synthesis report developed by this group “It will serve to facilitate the decision making, without being prescriptive.”
Mandated by the General Assembly, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Getterres, who welcomed the creation “a crucial point between the peak research in AI domain and the elaboration of policies’,, He is going to launch a call for candidates to identify the 40 future members of the group, who will have a three -year term.
“By providing rigorous and independent scientific evaluations (the group) will support the international community to anticipate the challenges and make informed decisions regarding the way of regulating this transformer technology.”said Secretary General’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric.
The resolution adopted on Tuesday also institutes a world annual dialogue on the regulation of artificial intelligence for “Put in common the best practices and lessons learned” on topics like AI systems “Safe, secure and trustworthy”‘, their social and economic impact or “Their strict control” by people.
The first such dialogue will take place in the margin of the world summit, held in Geneva in 2026.
We recall that, also on Tuesday, Melania Trump presented an initiative meant to introduce artificial intelligence (Ia) in American schools, which will be able to enter a competition with prizes to promote this action.
