The United Nations has launched a call for countries to agree to what it refers to as AI red lines: “do-not-cross limits for artificial intelligence, [to be established] by the end of 2026 to prevent the most severe risks to humanity and global stability.”
The UN statement issued Monday said, “without binding international rules, humanity faces escalating risks [ranging] from engineered pandemics and large-scale disinformation to global security threats, systematic human rights abuses and loss of human control and oversight over advanced systems.”
In a UN Q&A document about the initiative, the global body 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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