Guterres Calls for Blocking AI Life-or-Death Decisions and for International Oversight
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According to AI TIMES, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the U.N. General Assembly on September 22 that AI should not be allow…
According to AI TIMES, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the U.N. General Assembly on September 22 that AI should not be allowed to make decisions involving human life and death, calling for regulation of autonomous weapons and the establishment of an international risk management framework. He grouped war and peace, inequality, climate change, and AI as the four major tests facing humanity, and said that irresponsible technology is more dangerous than technology itself. In particular, he said power is concentrating in data, computing, and algorithms, while human control and management capabilities are failing to keep pace. He therefore called for clearly defining the responsibilities of those who develop and deploy technology, and for quickly building a multilateral framework with independent oversight. He also stressed that children should not be used as test subjects for unregulated systems. The remarks are drawing attention because they raise the AI debate beyond a race for innovation and into a matter of international norms and the security order.
Perspective
This issue is significant in that it repositions AI not as a mere industrial technology, but as a matter of control and responsibility. In particular, by putting life-or-death decisions and autonomous weapons at the forefront, it suggests that future competition will shift from how quickly performance can be improved to who is placed under what kind of oversight. If the baseline for related discussions ultimately moves from development speed to the legitimacy of governance, both the industry and governments will have to shoulder a heavier burden of accountability for how technology is disclosed and used.
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