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Join on Telegram Rabat – The United Nations (UN) has adopted its first resolution on Artificial Intelligence, which was recently introduced by Morocco and the US at the General Assembly.
The UN’s resolution, which followed more than three months of negotiations, aims to ensure that technology is used in a “safe and trustworthy” manner for sustainable development, without compromising human rights.
The UN led the effort to enact the resolution, which received overwhelming support from all 193 member states.
In addition to promoting safe, secure, and reliable artificial intelligence systems to hasten the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the resolution seeks to bridge the artificial intelligence and other digital gaps that exist between and within nations.
US officials emphasized in a briefing on Wednesday that the resolution’s unanimous ratification is a critical first step toward creating international AI safeguards, despite the fact that it is non-binding and lacks an enforcement mechanism.
According to a senior Biden administration official, “this first-ever standalone resolution on AI at the United Nations is a consensus resolution—that means that all 193 member states will agree to it, and trust me, that is no easy feat.” As of Wednesday, 97 countries had also co-sponsored the resolution, and that number was growing “literally by the hour.”
For Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Advisor, the adoption of the resolution is a “historic step forward” in promoting the responsible use of AI.
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In a statement to The Associated Press, Sullivan said that the resolution “would represent global support for a baseline set of principles for the development and use of AI and would lay out a path to leverage AI systems for good while managing the risks.”
As for the US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she said that both Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations were created in the years immediately following World War II, stressing that they have developed and expanded simultaneously.
She went on to say that as the United Nations and artificial intelligence eventually come together, the global community has a duty to decide how to manage this technology.
Following the voting, the US envoy was joined by ambassadors from the Bahamas, Japan, the Netherlands, Morocco, Singapore, and the UK at a press conference to endorse the resolution as a crucial step forward for all countries.
