AI watchdog agency proposal gets backing from UN chief
Generative AI technology that can spin authoritative prose from text prompts has captivated the public sincelaunched six months ago and became the fastest growing app of all time. AI has also become a focus of concern over its ability to create deepfake pictures and other misinformation.
“Alarm bells over the latest form of artificial intelligence – generative AI – are deafening. And they are loudest from the developers who designed it,” Guterres told reporters. “We must take those warnings seriously.” He has announced plans to start work by the end of the year on a high-level AI advisory body to regularly review AI governance arrangements and offer recommendations on how they can align with human rights, the rule of law and common good.Tech Talk: AI extinction warning & streaming service reset
But on Monday he added: “I would be favorable to the idea that we could have an artificial intelligence agency … inspired by what the international agency of atomic energy is today.” Guterres said such a model could be “very interesting” but noted that “only member states can create it, not the Secretariat of the United Nations.” The Vienna-based IAEA was created in 1957 and promotes the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies while watching for possible violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty . It has 176 member states.
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