The UN Wants The Keys To AI - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Artificial intelligence may become the most powerful information technology humanity has ever created. It will increasingly determine what people read, what children learn, how governments operate and, perhaps most importantly, what billions of people believe to be true. So there is a question just as important as what AI will eventually be capable of doing: Who gets to make the rules? United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres wants the UN to play a major role in answering that question. The organization has launched a Global Dialogue on AI Governance, created an international scientific panel on AI and is pushing countries toward...