United Nations, United States—The development of artificial intelligence should not be guided by market forces alone, experts from the United Nations cautioned on Thursday, calling for the creation of tools for global cooperation.
Their report, published days before the start of a high-profile “Summit of the Future,” raises the alarm over the lack of global governance of AI as well as the effective exclusion of developing countries from debates about the technology’s future. “The development, deployment and use of such a technology cannot be left to the whims of markets alone,” the report says.
That proposal is included in the draft Global Digital Compact, still under discussion, which is due to be adopted Sunday at the “Summit of the Future.”But it stops short of a fully-fledged international governance body—like that sought by Guterres—based on the model of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.