In a speech to United Nations General Assembly, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa launched “a global call for AI red lines,” urging governments “to establish clear, international boundaries to prevent universally unacceptable risks for AI,” and, “At the very least, define what AI should never be allowed to do.”
The Global Call for AI Red Lines she referred to, signed by over 200 prominent industry figures, Nobel laureates and former heads of state, said, “We urge governments to reach an international agreement on red lines for AI — ensuring they are operational, with robust enforcement mechanisms — by the end of 2026.”
In a Q&A document about the initiative, the organizers of the AI Red Lines campaign offered a wide range of possible AI bans, including barring its use in nuclear command and control, lethal autonomous weapons, mass surveillance, human impersonation involving “AI systems that deceive users into believing they are interacting with a human without disclosing their AI nature,” and cyber malicious use, which it defined as “prohibiting the uncontrolled release of cyberoffensive agents capable of disrupting critical infrastructure.”
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