The United Nations released a report that demands nations assimilate within a global government.
The report, called “Governing AI for Humanity,” asserts that a single government is needed to appropriately “manifest” and “distribute” the opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI).
“AI governance is crucial – not merely to address the challenges and risks, but also to ensure that we harness AI’s potential in ways that leave no one behind,” the report says.
“Global governance” is an “imperative,” the UN writes, adding, “The accelerating development of AI concentrates power and wealth on a global scale, with geopolitical and geoeconomic implications.”
The emergence of AI must be operated on a global, not national, scale, according to the report. “The development, deployment and use of such a technology cannot be left to the whims of markets alone,” the report says, suggesting that private companies cannot operate AI.
“National governments and regional organizations will be crucial. However, in addition to considerations of equity, access and prevention of and remedies for harm, the very nature of the technology itself – transboundary in structure and application – necessitates a global multisector approach,” according to UN. “Without a globally inclusive framework that engages stakeholders, and given the competitive dynamics at play, both Governments and companies might be tempted to cut corners or to prioritize self-interest,” the report says.
AI is “borderless,” the UN notes. As the technology expands, the “illusion that any one State or group of States could (or should) control it will diminish.”
The report on AI follows the UN’s adoption of a “Pact for the Future,” an effort that seeks to promote a “global order.”
Developing a “global” governing system is “essential to ensure that the positive progress we have seen across all three pillars of the work of the United Nations in recent decades does not unravel,” the Pact reads. The U.N. aims to accomplish this by “[renewing] trust in global institutions by making them more representative of and responsive to today’s world and more effective at delivering on the commitments that we have made to one another and our people.”