Scoop: U.S. makes UN push for AI for good
AXIOS December 13, 2023
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.
- Those pushing for the resolution...