Unlocking AI’s potential

Critics of AI highlight its threat to human creativity, jobs, democracy and even life itself, but oversight by the United Nations might still have the potential to ensure it is used for good.

AI at the UN

While the UN may not ever be able to mandate a single global AI governance framework, it can play a crucial role in setting minimum standards, fostering consensus on core principles and facilitating interoperability between different technological blocs, ensuring that AI is developed and deployed responsibly for the benefit of everyone.

The widening gap between ethics and international relations

In 1918 prominent American philosopher James H. Tufts asked, ‘Is there, can there be, any ethics of international relations?’ In the turbulent century since, that question has inspired many attempts at an answer and contemporary events press the issue again.