The reference news network reported on July 4. According to the Associated Press reported on July 3, the UN Security Council will hold its first meeting on the potential threat of artificial intelligence to international peace and security. The conference will be organized by Britain, which sees that the possible use of artificial intelligence in automatic weapons or nuclear weapons has both great potential and great risks.
According to reports, Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative of Britain to the United Nations, announced on the 3rd that the meeting to be held on July 18th is the central topic of Britain’s rotating presidency of the Security Council this month. The conference will include briefings by international artificial intelligence experts and UN Secretary-General antonio guterres. Guterres said last month that the alarm about the most advanced form of artificial intelligence was "deafening" and the loudest voice came from its developers.
Guterres said: "These scientists and experts call on the whole world to take action, claiming that artificial intelligence is a threat to human survival, which is equivalent to the risk of nuclear war."
Guterres announced that he plans to appoint an artificial intelligence advisory Committee in September to prepare for possible actions by the United Nations. He also said that he would respond positively to the establishment of a new artificial intelligence agency by the United Nations, and suggested taking the International Atomic Energy Agency as a template, because the agency is knowledge-based and has certain supervision rights.
The report also said that Woodward said that Britain hopes to encourage "taking a multilateral approach to deal with the huge opportunities and risks brought by artificial intelligence to all of us" and "this will require global efforts".
She emphasized that the benefits are enormous because artificial intelligence has the potential to help the United Nations develop projects, improve humanitarian aid operations, assist peacekeeping operations and support conflict prevention. She also said: "This may help us narrow the gap between developing countries and developed countries."
But Woodward said that artificial intelligence also has serious security problems that must be solved. (Compile/Lu Di)