AXIOS December 13, 2023
Ryan Heath

The United States is leading a new diplomatic push at the United Nations to mobilize all governments to support “AI for good and for all,” U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells Axios.

Why it matters: Despite the need for new tools to tackle urgent problems like climate change, the richest and most powerful governments that back international responsible-AI initiatives have steered away from the deeply divided UN as an AI forum — until now.

The big picture: The U.S. wants the UN to explicitly affirm that AI will be deployed consistent with the UN’s founding documents — the U.N. Charter, which aims to rid the world of war, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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