The Geneva Digital Week opened July 6 with the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the AI for Good Global Summit, where the United Nations’ new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence presented to governments its first global scientific assessment of AI. The gathering caps three years in which the U.N. has produced an impressive volume of work on AI, from the Global Digital Compact to the Governing AI for Humanity report; from UNESCO’s recommendation on the ethics of AI to the International Telecommunication Union’s annual summits. Read together, this work shares a single posture in which the U.N. treats AI as something to be received, a downstream resource to be channeled toward beneficial ends, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, monitored for societal effects, fitted with ethical guardrails. This is the demand side of technology, and it’s where all the U.N.’s substantive engagement currently sits. The supply side, or the places where frontier AI is produced, evaluated, and released, has no meaningful U.N. presence at all. There is no multilateral body with technical staff who can examine a laboratory’s work, no arrangement for evaluating training runs, no shared infrastructure for incident reporting across borders. submitted by /u/_fastcompany
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